NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BYTHE NEW YORK TIMES,WASHINGTON POST,LOS ANGELES TIMES,TIME,OPRAH DAILY, ANDVOGUE

So immersive, so all-encompassing, that I felt like I was living in it.Ann Patchett

From the Booker Prize-winning andNew York Timesbestselling author ofShuggie BainandYoung Mungocomes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a fathers expectations and a sons desires

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother.

Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his sons long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn’t the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.

John of Johnis a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart’s reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today.