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James Meek is one of our most consistently brilliant and thought-provoking writers. This is his best novel yet - a dark and unsettling meditation on marriage, fatherhood and architecture. Every page rings with deep truth -- ALEX PRESTON James Meek is a master of the art of the stealthy narrative, and his keen intelligence and alertness are evident on every page of his new novel as he juxtaposes the ordinary, unsolvable tragedy of one family's life against the greater dilemma of our compromised relationship with the modern world. Reading Your Life After Me is like watching a glass slowly turning to reveal a truth that is at once uncomfortable and heart-breaking -- RUPERT THOMSON James Meek's Your Life Without Me follows a retired schoolteacher as he tries to discover whether it was his influence that landed a favourite former pupil in prison for a radical act of destruction. In the process, Mr Burman starts to understand his own dysfunctional family dynamics in a novel that is a profound and unsettling take on modern life by a writer at the top of his game. -- KIRSTY LANG Praise for James Meek: 'A glorious imaginative feat . . . Rarely have I been so captivated by a novel' -- SARAH WATERS on To Calais in Ordinary Time A story so original and so fully imagined -- HILARY MANTEL on To Calais in Ordinary Time Be it essay or article, novel or short story, as a writer and time traveller James Meek does things differently and as readers we are all the better for that * * Sunday Times * * The language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling. And what a narrative! -- PHILIP PULLMAN on The People's Act of Love The best and most original book that I have read for years -- LOUIS DE BERNIERES on The People's Act of Love James Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo * * Independent * *

Praise for James Meek: 'A glorious imaginative feat . . . Rarely have I been so captivated by a novel' -- SARAH WATERS on To Calais in Ordinary Time A story so original and so fully imagined -- HILARY MANTEL on To Calais in Ordinary Time Be it essay or article, novel or short story, as a writer and time traveller James Meek does things differently and as readers we are all the better for that * * Sunday Times * * The language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling. And what a narrative! -- PHILIP PULLMAN on The People's Act of Love The best and most original book that I have read for years -- LOUIS DE BERNIERES on The People's Act of Love James Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo * * Independent * *

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James Meek is the author of seven novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction, including Private Island which won the 2015 Orwell Prize. In 2020, To Calais, In Ordinary Time was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London. @meekajam | @jamesmeek.bsky.social

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