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Your Life Without Me

by James Meek

Hardback £18.99
Published 12th February 2026
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An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People’s Act of Love

Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police.

He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul’s cathedral - and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. Have the police laid a trap?

Compelling and compassionate, this novel follows Mr Burman’s journey towards the mystery of a radical act and into the true nature of his own family. It asks what a person leaves behind when they’ve gone, and how much of the past we can carry with us into the future.

Details

Your Life Without Me
by James Meek

ISBN
9781837262618

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd

Binding
Hardback

Publication date
Feb. 12, 2026

Dimensions
22.0cm x 14.1cm x 2.3cm

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