Jonathan Miles

‘Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times, and all powered by the writer’s tremendous narrative imagination’ Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter Eradication is a blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on a remote Pacific island. Reeling from tragedy, a former jazz musician-turned-schoolteacher named Adi answers a job...

Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing - Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week' [A] fabulous romp of a book * - Mail on Sunday A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which...