{"title":"Bookclub Shortlist","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"john-of-john","title":"John of John","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDouglas Stuart\u003c\/h2\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times • The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books • The Sydney Morning Herald • Time • Oprah Daily • Vogue • ELLE • Kirkus Reviews • Los Angeles Times • Literary Hub • Washington Post •\u003c\/i\u003e Goodreads\u003ci\u003e • Publishers Weekly • USA Today • \u003c\/i\u003eService95\u003ci\u003e • \u003c\/i\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Globe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eSpring 2026 Read\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom the Booker-winning author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eYoung Mungo\u003c\/i\u003e comes a vivid, moving, and beautifully crafted novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a close-knit community and a fraying family, of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Douglas Stuart's \u003ci\u003eJohn of John \u003c\/i\u003ehas the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed.\" \u003cb\u003e—Colm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To read \u003ci\u003eJohn of John\u003c\/i\u003e is to move to the Isle of Harris and take up residence in the family croft. 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