Harvest

Jim Crace reads from his lyrical, poignant novel Harvest and talks to his editor Kate Harvey about the novel, and his writing as a whole.

It was while working as a journalist that Crace began writing short stories. In 1986, he published Continent to critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award, the David Higham Prize for Fiction, and the Guardian Fiction prize. Over the years, the Booker Prize-nominated author has gained a huge popular and critical following by virtue of his distinctive, hypnotic prose style. 

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As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a dangerously magnetic woman – arrives on the woodland borders and puts up a make-shift camp. That same night, the local manor house is set on fire.

Jonathan Ruppin, Web Editor for Foyles, talks about his lifelong love of Jim Crace's writing. Follow him on Twitter @tintiddle.

Harvest by Jim Crace is published on the 14th February this year and, as reviewers are putting their most eloquent pens to paper, the literary world is gathering itself: put simply, a new novel by Jim Crace is an event. The sort us bookies get all excited about.