'Utterly awe-inspiring.' Douglas Stuart
'Extraordinary.' Marina Hyde
'An utter joy to read.' Monica Ali
'Majestic.' Independent
'A masterpiece.' John Lanchester
'Addictively enjoyable.' Guardian
'Pitch-perfect.' Observer
** Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction **
** A Sunday Times Bestseller **
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.
Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.
The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world. He has experiences and ideas that excite his teacher. He also has a plan.
Over the course of an incendiary year a web of secrets and crimes will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves. But then, he always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.
Andrew O'Hagan's book Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 06-04-2024
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Caledonian Road 9780571381357 Hardback
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Caledonian Road
Got this at the Edinburgh Book Festival. When I got round to reading it I kept waiting, page after page, chapter after chapter, for it to take off from the runway of scene setting and character outlining. It never did, instead ambling along with a tired collection of 2-dimensional characters and t…
Got this at the Edinburgh Book Festival. When I got round to reading it I kept waiting, page after page, chapter after chapter, for it to take off from the runway of scene setting and character outlining. It never did, instead ambling along with a tired collection of 2-dimensional characters and took far too long/too many pages, to reach an end. Hugely disappointing.
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Caledonian Road
Read it in 3 days, fantastic prose and story telling. An accomplished sketch of the state of our nation; given the number of voices that are heard here now it is difficult to sound authentic but Mr O' Hagan has managed to make it believable. I rate it up there with M. Amis' London novels w…
Read it in 3 days, fantastic prose and story telling. An accomplished sketch of the state of our nation; given the number of voices that are heard here now it is difficult to sound authentic but Mr O' Hagan has managed to make it believable. I rate it up there with M. Amis' London novels which from me is high praise indeed. I'm not a robot.
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780571381357
- Number of Pages:
- 656
- Publication Date:
- 04/04/2024
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780571381357