{"product_id":"signed-indie-exclusive-country-people-pre-order-now-for-7-7-26","title":"SIGNED INDIE EXCLUSIVE - Country People - PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 7\/7\/26","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePre-order your signed copy of\u003cem\u003e Country People \u003c\/em\u003eby Daniel Mason for £20.00. This edition is a SIGNED indie exclusive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 7 July 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePre-Orders will only be posted\/available to collect following the publication date above\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cem\u003e North Woods\u003c\/em\u003e and one of America's greatest living writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback 320 pages, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003eImprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399835015\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 7 Jul 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56786944426357,"sku":"9781399835015","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/1080x1350Instagramgrid_d440a0fd-83b6-424a-8057-b4457aebdff1.jpg?v=1772018092","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/signed-indie-exclusive-country-people-pre-order-now-for-7-7-26","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}