“[A] magical novel. . . . A perfectly rendered story of friendship, love, and the porous border between the living and the dead.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"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 and Young Mungo
"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, Booker Prize-Longlisted author of The South
"I completely inhaled and adored this gorgeous meditation on life, death, and the cruising that happens in between, and sometimes after. Sleek, dreamy, mysterious, yet totally grounded and profoundly sexy. An expertly crafted ghost story overflowing with life." ―Samantha Josephs, author of Carrying
"Haunting, sexy, and life-affirming, The Living Realm is a shimmering dream of a novel that feels destined to become a classic of queer literature. Jordan Tannahill is truly one of our greats." ―Tobi Coventry, author of He's the Devil
"Very good on what's temporal/elemental, nostalgic without being mawkish, political sans agitprop, surprising in all the good ways." —Niven Govinden, author of Diary of a Film
"A glimpse of the sublime — full of love and wonder, this book transforms farewell into summer without end." —Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Deep House
"In this book, love, grief and rapture, like time and language, become fluid." —Angelo Tijssens, author of The Edges
"The Living Realm is a deeply tender and mystical meditation on desire and aging, the processes by which we are made and then unmade. Its beauty and wisdom left me breathless." —Huw Lemmey, co-author of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
"Audacious and rutting and true and wild. It has haunted me since I read it." —Ben Miller, co-author of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
"The Listeners is a breathtakingly, breathholdingly good novel from one of the most original writers in this country. Tannahill serves up enormous ideas in delicious slices. What’s truth? Who do we trust? Is skepticism better than belief? He has a playwright’s ear and a director’s eye. I didn’t so much read the novel as watch it unfold. The Listeners is breathtakingly, breathholdingly good." —Ian Williams, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of Reproduction, on The Listeners
“Tannahill has written an engaging, shocking and hilarious story about how a woman's search for deeper meaning leads to an entire town being in crisis. It is a testament to the revulsion and horror an ordinary person can inspire when they decide to simply peek outside of the box.” —Heather O’Neill, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel, on The Listeners
"The Listeners starts as a little hum in your ear and ends up blowing the top off your head. A deeply plausible, funny, horrifying story of a journey right off the rails." —Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars, on The Listeners
"The Listeners is a sharp, tense, and extremely readable novel" —Quill & Quire on The Listeners
