SIGNED INDIE EXCLUSIVE - Country People - PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 7/7/26
Pre-order your signed copy of Country People by Daniel Mason for £20.00. This edition is a SIGNED indie exclusive.
Publication date: 7 July 2026
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A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown-a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America's greatest living writers.
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales, and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.
But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's words, 'a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere.' And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colourful as any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in a "Inventory of Wrong Ideas." The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre - even ridiculous - local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all. Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and how we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
Format: Hardback 320 pages, N/A
Publisher: John Murray Press
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781399835015
Published: 7 Jul 2026