Burial Rites: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick (Picador Collection) Paperback – 7 March 2024

Hannah Kent . Picador . English

*Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction**BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!* ‘Outstanding’ Madeline Miller ‘Gripping, intriguing and unique’ Kate Mosse Northern Iceland, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with absolving her. But all is not as it seems, and time is running out: winter is coming, and with it the execution date. Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes’s story. Based on actual events, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a dark thriller, and a beautiful and gripping read. ‘One of the best Scandinavian crime novels I’ve read’ Independent ‘Remarkable’ The Sunday Times ‘A must-read’ Grazia Shorlisted for The Guardian First Book Award Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards *Devotion, the new novel from Hannah Kent, is out now!*

Categories: Action & Adventure

About the Author

Hannah Kent’s first novel, the international bestseller, BURIAL RITES, was translated into over 30 languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the Prix Critiqueslibres Découvrir Étranger, the Booktopia People’s Choice Award, the ABA Nielsen Bookdata Booksellers’ Choice Award and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award, the Stella Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, amongst others. It is currently being adapted for film by Sony TriStar. Hannah’s second novel, THE GOOD PEOPLE, was translated into 10 languages and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Award for Historical Fiction, the Indie Books Award for Literary Fiction, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. It is currently being adapted for film by Aquarius Productions. DEVOTION, Hannah's third novel, will be published in November 2021 (Australia) and February 2022 (UK & Ireland) by Picador. Hannah’s original feature film, Run Rabbit Run, will be directed by Daina Reid (The Handmaid’s Tale) and produced by Carver and XYZ Films. It was launched at the Cannes 2020 virtual market where STX Entertainment took world rights. Hannah co-founded the Australian literary publication Kill Your Darlings. She has written for The New York Times, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Qantas Magazine and LitHub. Hannah lives and works on Peramangk country near Adelaide, Australia.

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