Rabbits - Included in the Times Best Paperback Books of 2025

Rabbits is the much-anticipated, long awaited new novel from columnist Hugo Rifkind. It is a story of drugs, aristocracy, death and disputed inheritance, set in the 1990s - it's Iain Banks meets The Secret History, a journey into a different class and a coming-of-age story in a changing Scotland.

About the author

Hugo Rifkind is a columnist, critic and leader writer for The Times and a presenter on Times Radio, having formerly been a columnist for the Spectator, GQ and the Herald. He is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s comedy show The News Quiz, and an occasional guest on television shows that aren’t supposed to be funny at all. He was born and raised in Edinburgh, studied in Cambridge, and now lives in North London in a house where everybody else speaks German, including the dog.

Summary

Rabbits is the much-anticipated, long awaited new novel from columnist Hugo Rifkind. It is a story of drugs, aristocracy, death and disputed inheritance, set in the 1990s – it’s Iain Banks meets The Secret History, a journey into a different class and a coming-of-age story in a changing Scotland.

Product details

• Authors: Hugo Rifkind, Rifkind Hugo
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781846977091
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-709-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Scotland, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, c 1990 to c 1999, Adventure / action fiction, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general