The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits Bradford The Bat

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits Bradford The BatSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Whats left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Laywards wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while taking her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact, and keeps driving West. An unforgettable road trip novel, The Rest of Our Lives beautifully explores the nuance and complications of a long term marriage

It offers the experience ot a past that is not always tound in the history books

this book poses closely argued contestations to some dominant interpretations in the historiography of Sri Lankan nationalism and proposes more nuanced perspectives on the 1915 Pogrom

Someone's about to turn their last page

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award

Life on our planet as you've never seen it before

life philosophy and traditional customs of pre-celebration can uplift and enrich not only the lives of those who practice the art of Yoshuku but everyone around them too

JOIN THE SRI LANKAN ADVENTURE

Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he’s been alive

These names

and you’ll get used to it

and their distinctive individual differences and inspirations

these poems reflect the life of a writer