John Burnside

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2003
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Shifting Stars

  • Living Nowhere

    Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son ...

  • The Alderman

    A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
     
    At a critical point in her career, painter Angelika Rossdal suddenly moves to Kvaloya, a small island deep in the Arctic Circle, to dedicate herself to the ...

  • The Devil's Footprints

    Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. Married but rather distant from his wife, he reads in the local paper that a school friend, Moira Birnie, has killed herself and her two sons by setting their car ...

  • The Glister

    Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche.  Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a per...

  • Dumb House

    As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and d...

  • The Hunt in the Forest

    Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the darkness, where we may just as easily lose ourselves as ...

  • Waking Up in Toytown

  • Burning Elvis

    As he sets out on his first adventure in life, a young man enters the dark realm of adult violence; a married suburbanite longs for the wide, mysterious world that seems to hover just beyond the next turn in the road; a pair of disturbed twins commit...



  • The Locust Room

    Twenty five years ago, during the spring and summer of 1975, a rapist stalked the streets of Cambridge, attacking young, single women in their bed-sits and flats and subjecting them to horrifying and increasingly violent assaults. For several months...

  • Something Like Happy

    In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at night....

  • A Summer of Drowning

  • Havergey

    Havergey is the first work of fiction from Little Toller. A few years from now on the small and remote island of Havergey, a community of survivors from a great human catastrophe has created new lives and a new world in a landscape renewed after m...

  • Ashland & Vine

    Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. If she can sta...

  • A Lie About My Father

  • The Mercy Boys

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Burnside has published 16 books.

John Burnside does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Lie About My Father, was published in September 2021.

The first book by John Burnside, The Shifting Stars, was published in June 2003.

No. John Burnside does not write books in series.
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