03/07/2026
'John of John" by Douglas Stuart
Cal Macleod is a young textile student in Edinburgh when his father, John, orders him home to the Isle of Harris to look after his grandmother Ella. Back in the family croft, among sheep, looms and a strict Presbyterian community, the three of them share a house and a habit of saying very little to one another. Each guards a secret, and Douglas Stuart takes his time revealing how many of those secrets are already known. John of John is his third novel, and it takes him from Glasgow to the Out...