Jim Crace

Eden opens with a summons. The gardeners of Eden are called by their masters, the angels, to see a dead body. It is that of a bird, a creature who has strayed beyond the garden walls. The garden's inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life—surrounded by bountiful fields, orchards and lakes—a place where the lord's bidding is done. But outside,...

Set in a walled garden, whose inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, Eden opens with a summons. The gardeners of Eden are called by their masters, the angels, to see a dead body. It is that of a bird, a creature who has strayed beyond the garden walls. Outside, where there is poverty and sickness and death, this bird...

Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 'Dazzling, gritty brilliance' - Sunday Times 'Completely captivating' - Literary Review Jim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal measure, Quarantine is a stunningly realized novel from one of the great writers of...

The inspiration behind the Major Motion Picture starring Caleb Landry Jones. 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...

Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attacked...