Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a film adaptation starring Caleb Landry Jones. Jim Crace creates a haunting world in Harvest.
‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian
‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a dangerously magnetic woman – arrive on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk’s village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.
But something even darker is at the heart of Walter’s story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .
‘Terrible, lyrical beauty that is nothing like any other novel I have ever read’ – Spectator
‘He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time’ – Colum McCann
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Details
30 April 2026
9781035090792Reviews
Masterly in its firm grip on what need only be intimated and what stated cleanly. It was easily the best-written novel of the year.
‘Few novels as fine or as complex in their apparent simplicity will be published this, or indeed any, year.’ Irish Times
‘Jim Crace is the most generous of writers . . . Harvest is one of his best novels ever. He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time.’ Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
‘This very beautifully written novel gives pause for thought and unearths a quintessential England, never stereotyped, which is also deeply and humanly unique . . . Crace’s most satisfying, and probably, best book.’ Scotsman
