Henry Henry

One of the most exciting new novels I’ve read in the past couple of months * Financial Times *Darkly humorous * Stylist *Dark and gripping… I couldn’t put it down * Daily Mail *With this reimagining, Bratton has created a marvelously detailed world of supernumerary aristocrats, as rich, toxic and wild as the best entries in the the Real Housewives franchise * New York Times *Fun… Bratton has a sharp eye for the absurdities of the white-saviour ex-public-schoolboy. And there’s a keen sense of the aching fugue of one’s early twenties * Telegraph *Wonderful… This book needs to be read right now by as many people as possible – Brandon Taylor, author of The Late AmericansCarnal and precise, a challenging taxonomy of familial and personal failure that Bratton renders without tidiness or judgment – Raven Leilani, author of LusterI tore through Henry Henry in two days. A thrillingly imaginative new vision for Shakespeare’s Henriad – witty in its narrative parallels and deliciously realist in its resetting. You will come away from this book changed – Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of TimeBratton executes the project sharply, with humour and poignancy… He can really write * Prospect *Irreverent, immersive, scathingly funny, with a deep emotional undercurrent that pulls you out unexpectedly into heart-wrenching territory. Henry Henry is a brilliantly glinting and twisted debut – Seán Hewitt, author of All Down Darkness Wide

Allen Bratton was born in the United States. He holds an MA in English Language and Literatures, having written a thesis on medieval English kingship. He is the winner of the 2021 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest and was longlisted for the 2021 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. Henry Henry, shortlisted for the 2025 Lammy Awards, is his debut novel.