Seascraper - Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

When a striking visitor turns up, an American who oozes glamour, Tom thinks it''s a good deal - show him around the misty coast in exchange for enough money to raise an eyebrow at the bank, maybe enough to broaden the narrow horizons he''s begun to strain against. Mr Acheson says he''s in the movie business, but how much of what he says is Hollywood magic? SEASCRAPER is a mesmerising, haunting portrait of a man in a slow war of attrition - with the elements, with himself, and with the ghosts of his family''s past.

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A quiet, unassuming book about honest work and modest dreams, about sons and their duty, and those brief, wonderful moments when we glimpse the possibility of living a different life. Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer and I intend to read everything he has written Douglas Stuart

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Wood, Wood Benjamin
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2025
• EAN: 9780241741344
• ISBN: 978-0-241-74134-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 206 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, North West England