Jim Crace's biggest novel since Being Dead draws once more on his genius with landscape and myth, to create a lost and bewitching English world.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a film adaptation starring Caleb Landry Jones. Jim Crace creates a haunting world in Harvest.

‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian

‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

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 – arrive on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk’s village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.

But something even darker is at the heart of Walter’s story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .

‘Terrible, lyrical beauty that is nothing like any other novel I have ever read’ – Spectator

‘He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time’ – Colum McCann

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

"Masterly in its firm grip on what need only be intimated and what stated cleanly. It was easily the best-written novel of the year." - Spectator

"'For Christmas I hope for Harvest, the last novel of that fine and unsparing writer Jim Crace.'" - Observer

"'A spare, haunting book . . . one to savour.'" - Financial Times

"There are three novels I've pressed most enthusiastically on people this year. Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted Harvest, about land enclosure and dispossession, transports the reader into a past that feels more present than the world outside, yet also sheds an uneasy light on today." - Guardian

"The most accomplished novelists can illuminate the present while making their chosen past live, move and talk . . . This intensely local story becomes, by the rhythmic majesty and fervour of its writing, a universal one." - Independent

"Beautifully written . . . an early front-runner for this year's Man Booker" - Sunday Times

"Two novels this year stretched the bounds of historical fiction and were great page-turners too; Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and Jim Crace's Harvest . . . [Harvest] has something of the same dreamlike power, a story with an almost brutally simple arc that is also lyrical and thought-provoking" - Evening Standard

"Harvest, apparently Jim Crace's farewell to novelism, has [an] elusive quality. Set in a remote farming community that goes to hell in a handcart with the advent of land enclosures, it aspires to the unsettling self-assurance of a William Golding novel without ever quite cashing the cheque that its attitude promises." - Daily Telegraph