Serious Music

A captivating response to Mark Twain's classic that is both a bold exploration of a dark chapter in history and a testament to resilience of the human spiritThe 2024 Booker Prize Judges, on James

Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book. Unforgiving and compassionate, beautiful and brutal, a tragedy and a farce, this brilliant novel rewrites literary history to let us hear the voices it has long suppressedHernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust

Scorchingly funny . . . A significant and exhilarating corrective to history, told in the most compelling of voicesThe Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year