{"product_id":"john-of-john-douglas-stuart","title":"John of John - Douglas Stuart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Booker-winning author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYoung Mungo\u003c\/i\u003e comes a vivid, moving, and beautifully crafted novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a close-knit community and a fraying family, of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the island of Harris to find that little has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal begrudgingly resumes his old life, stuck between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for several decades. Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As lambing season turns to shearing season, everything seems poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly knotted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn of John\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular novel about duty and patience and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that shows Douglas Stuart working at an even higher level of artistic creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 12 May \u003c\/span\u003e2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e 9781035086962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImprint:\u003c\/span\u003e Picador\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e Trade Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Obsidian Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54416442229041,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/3557\/6881\/files\/john.jpg?v=1780453777","url":"https:\/\/obsidianbookshop.com\/products\/john-of-john-douglas-stuart","provider":"Obsidian Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}