O Brother

‘Vivid, visceral, brilliantly funny in places, dispensing sharp punches to the gut in others … [O Brother] made me sob more than once, and I suspect it will do the same to you’ - Guardian‘Riotous and yet bracingly moving … Often exuberant, laugh-out-loud funny, touching, sad and rueful’ - Observer‘Heartbreaking, and told with tenderness and honesty … The writing is first rate, without announcing how good it is. I can’t recommend it strongly enough’ - Spectator‘An honest epitaph for a troubled soul, tender and sentimental, but shot through with anger and regret for the things left unsaid’ - The Times‘Oh my God, this book! O Brother feels like war-level reportage from the nuclear-blast that suicide inflicts on a family. [… ] A book whose genuine importance is only equaled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability’ - CAITLIN MORAN

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.