Lanny

The author of "Grief Is The Thing With Feathers" presents in this new novel a village outside London where lives of the present and lives that played out there hundreds of years ago interweave. Dead Papa Toothwort awakes from his slumber and is vigilant of these characters - searching intently for his favourite, a boy called Lanny.

Max Porter is the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, Lanny, a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the recipient of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. His work has been translated into thirty-three languages.