Marilynne Robinson

‘I have found that when you write a novel, a character never actually leaves you from that point on.’   MARILYNNE ROBINSON   Regarded as one of America’s most important, graceful and original writers, Marilynne […]

Return to Gilead one more time. In this fourth and final novel in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series we learn more about Jack Boughton – the loved and grieved-over prodigal son. Set before Gilead, Home and Lila, just after World […]

In anticipation of the release of Jack we’re revisiting the novels where it all began. Read an extract from Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Lila, homeless and alone after years of […]

In anticipation of the release of Jack we’re revisiting each novel in the Gilead quartet. Here is an extract from Women’s Prize winning novel, Home. Jack Boughton – prodigal son – has been gone twenty […]

In anticipation of the release of Jack we’re revisiting the novel where it all began, Gilead. In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son. This […]

Marilynne Robinson is widely considered to be one of America’s greatest writers and thinkers, counting among her accolodes the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Pen award. Her novels […]

Virago announces Marilynne Robinson’s thrilling new novel, JACK – making her famous Gilead novels a quartet   Revisiting her beloved characters and settings and joining Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Home, winner of the […]

Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels – Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila – and in her moving essay collection When I […]