Living Realm

Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Two of his plays have won a Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s highest state honour for literature. His debut novel, Liminal, won France's 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, The Listeners, was a Canadian bestseller, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize 2021 and adapted into a major BBC drama series.

Praise for The Living Realm: ‘It’s rare to read a novel that expresses so powerfully the wonder of existing in time alongside others: the possibilities this offers for loving and being loved, the obligations love imposes. The final pages of this beautiful, hugely ambitious book amazed me. The Living Realm is a novel that rises to its subject: the whole of life’ Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain‘At once an unflinchingly beautiful novel about queer desire, summer days, and casual sex, that is also an elegy to friendship, grief, and lovers lost. Startlingly brave and brilliantly told, I devoured each page not sure what to expect next. The Living Realm belongs in the firmament of great gay fiction’ Douglas Stuart, author of John of John‘A ghost story, a meditation on ageing and the passage of time, a celebration of queer Berlin – Jordan Tannahill captures so much in a slim, hypnotic novel. Playful yet melancholic, The Living Realm tests the boundaries between the real and the unreal, and asks what it means to build a life and a community in the margins’ Tash Aw, author of The South