Awards

• Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2023/2024 (UK)
• Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2024 (UK)
• Long-listed for Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024 (UK)
• Short-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2024 (UK)
• Short-listed for Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024 (UK)

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Oh my God, this book! O Brother feels like war-level reportage from the nuclear-blast that suicide inflicts on a family. [. . . ] The honesty is unflinching, the humour night-black, and yet the sheer energy and power of the writing means you can, as I did, inhale it in just two sittings [. . . ]. A book whose genuine importance is only equaled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability -- CAITLIN MORAN This is a work of scalding honesty and candour which explores the devastating impact of suicide on a family . . . An act of remembrance and a testimony to his brother [. . .]. Transcendent power and anguish, shot through with brilliant humour and insight. I couldn't put it down -- SALI HUGHES

Oh my God, this book! O Brother feels like war-level reportage from the nuclear-blast that suicide inflicts on a family. [. . . ] The honesty is unflinching, the humour night-black, and yet the sheer energy and power of the writing means you can, as I did, inhale it in just two sittings [. . . ]. A book whose genuine importance is only equaled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability -- CAITLIN MORAN This is a work of scalding honesty and candour which explores the devastating impact of suicide on a family . . . An act of remembrance and a testimony to his brother [. . .]. Transcendent power and anguish, shot through with brilliant humour and insight. I couldn't put it down -- SALI HUGHES Praise for John Niven: 'Niven can provoke tears of sorrow as well as laughter' * * Sunday Telegraph * * John Niven is our Hunter S. Thompson -- ADAM KAY A writer who could wring laughs out of pretty much anything * * The Times * * There's nothing faster, sadder or funnier than John Niven on men -- CAITLIN MORAN Probably the most exciting British writer working today -- DANNY WALLACE It's impossible to read [Niven] without laughing out loud one second, then feeling guiltily exhilarated the next -- MARINA HYDE Makes me ill with laughter -- INDIA KNIGHT Niven's writing is so buzzy and fresh, it's still wet on the page * * Evening Standard * * Niven never, ever pulls a punch -- RUPERT THOMPSON Properly funny. Always worth reading -- SAM LEITH Niven is genuinely, brilliantly warm and funny and wise about men and women -- STUART MACONIE Niven's novels are both funny and horrible. Like a clown car made of human heads -- DAVID QUANTICK

'Oh my God, this book! O Brother feels like war-level reportage from the nuclear-blast that suicide inflicts on a family. [. . . ] The honesty is unflinching, the humour night-black, and yet the sheer energy and power of the writing means you can, as I did, inhale it in just two sittings [. . . ]. A book whose genuine importance is only equaled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability' - Caitlin Moran 'Absurdly well-written, painfully funny and painfully painful' - Adam Kay 'O Brother is an extraordinary memoir; as devastating as it is colourful, forensic in its examination of family dynamics and oh so beautifully written. I earmarked so many pages that my copy doubled in width. Do not read the final chapter without a box of tissues' - Jojo Moyes 'Heartbreaking and heartwarming' - Will Young 'This is a work of scalding honesty and candour which explores the devastating impact of suicide on a family . . . An act of remembrance and a testimony to his brother [. . .]. Transcendent power and anguish, shot through with brilliant humour and insight. I couldn't put it down' - Sali Hughes

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John Niven is the author of eleven books, including Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming and Straight White Male. As a screenwriter his credits include The Trip, Kill Your Friends and How to Build a Girl. O Brother is his first non-fiction book.@estellecostanza

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