{"title":"Damian Barr","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"you-will-be-safe-here-book-damian-barr-9781408886090","title":"You Will Be Safe Here","description":"An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year  ‘This is a book that tilts the world’ STYLIST  'A gripping, heartbreaking tale of uncomfortable histories and the resilience of love' GRAHAM NORTON  'I want you to read this ... I enjoy a lot of books but few stay with me like this has' PHILIPPA PERRY  'Completely gripping and profoundly moving' MAGGIE O'FARRELL  'Very beautiful. Only a truly wise and kind person could write such a book' MAX PORTER  'Heart-wrenching ... redemptive and full of love' JOJO MOYES  A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME  The book that will change the way you see the world.   2010. Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he’s not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they ‘make men out of boys’. Guaranteed.  1901. The height of the second Boer War in South Africa.  Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49515307991313,"sku":"GOR009841613","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49755613266193,"sku":"GOR011666830","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49911298556177,"sku":"CIN140888609XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/140888609X.jpg?v=1751114934"},{"product_id":"you-will-be-safe-here-book-damian-barr-9781408886052","title":"You Will Be Safe Here","description":"An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year   An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick    Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the London Magazine Debut Fiction Prize 2020 Longlisted for HWA Debut Crown 2020  ‘Beautifully written and emotionally devastating’ Daily Mail  A beautiful and heart-breaking story set in South Africa where two mothers - a century apart - must fight for their sons, unaware their fates are inextricably linked.  Orange Free State, 1901. At the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred can only watch as the British burn their farm. The polite invaders cart them off to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp promising you will be safe here.    Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider who just wants to be left alone with his Harry Potter books and Britney, his beloved pug. Worried he’s turning out soft, his Ma and her new boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Camp, where they ‘make men out of boys.’ Guaranteed.   The red earth of the veldt keeps countless secrets whether beaten by the blistering sun or stretching out beneath starlit stillness. But no secret can stay buried forever.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519642411281,"sku":"GOR010409733","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731594977553,"sku":"NGR9781408886052","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50333630595345,"sku":"CIN1408886057G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50679271555345,"sku":"GOR014032128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50898784813329,"sku":"GOR014113440","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52694860661009,"sku":"GOR010537722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53370828128529,"sku":"CIN1408886057VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408886057.jpg?v=1750794842"},{"product_id":"get-it-together-a-guide-to-surviving-your-quarterlife-crisis-book-damian-barr-9780340829028","title":"Get It Together: A guide to surviving your quarterlife crisis","description":"You're twenty-five but feel forty-five. You should be having the time of your life. But all you do is stress about your future-free job, low salary, alleged friends and non-existent partner. If your life was a movie it would go straight to video. And nobody would rent it. Researching this book Damian Barr spoke to hundreds of men and women in their twenties from all over the UK - everybody had a different story, but there were common themes. Almost everyone felt they should be doing better, earning more, living faster and looking better than they do now. Work, Housing, Money and Relationships are what we all worry, dream and talk about.  The quarterlife crisis can affect any, or all, of these areas.  Get It Together is structured in four parts and each part looks in depth at one such area. Is it worth doing a postgrad or working abroad? Should you buy or rent? What are the true start-up costs of your first job, and how do you negotiate pay? Is the person you first started going out with as a fresher still right for you?  Are you still right for them?  Is the answer non-monogamy? The big question is: is the pressure to get it together making you fall apart?If so, you're in good company. If not, go away.  Nobody wants to hear about how fabulous your life is.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522746097937,"sku":"GOR001375457","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49641593176337,"sku":"GOR001568883","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49661099213073,"sku":"GOR004608878","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340829028.jpg?v=1750695795"},{"product_id":"you-will-be-safe-here-book-damian-barr-9781408886083","title":"You Will Be Safe Here","description":"An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year  ‘This is a book that tilts the world’ STYLIST  'A gripping, heartbreaking tale of uncomfortable histories and the resilience of love' GRAHAM NORTON  'I want you to read this ... I enjoy a lot of books but few stay with me like this has' PHILIPPA PERRY  'Completely gripping and profoundly moving' MAGGIE O'FARRELL  'Very beautiful. Only a truly wise and kind person could write such a book' MAX PORTER  'Heart-wrenching ... redemptive and full of love' JOJO MOYES  A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME  The book that will change the way you see the world.   2010. Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he’s not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they ‘make men out of boys’. Guaranteed.  1901. The height of the second Boer War in South Africa.  Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527691018513,"sku":"GOR009768251","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52738506752273,"sku":"GOR010081183","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408886081.jpg?v=1750954717"},{"product_id":"maggie-me-book-damian-barr-9781408838099","title":"Maggie \u0026 Me","description":"A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528757223697,"sku":"GOR005643398","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633403896081,"sku":"GOR006238074","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49706909106449,"sku":"GOR006730442","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730459762961,"sku":"NGR9781408838099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50094945009937,"sku":"GOR010176381","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372527161617,"sku":"CIN1408838095A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372532109585,"sku":"CIN1408838095G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408838095.jpg?v=1757071492"},{"product_id":"maggie-me-book-damian-barr-9781408838075","title":"Maggie \u0026 Me","description":"It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in  Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland,  eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding  ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive.   Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new  boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the  Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together  by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as  Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions and  makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans  his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and - in spite  of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 - manages to fall in love  dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club.   Maggie \u0026amp; Me is  a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a  story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other  side in spite of, and maybe because of, the iron lady.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49547650466065,"sku":"GOR005701901","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598960435473,"sku":"GOR005590913","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109210222865,"sku":"GOR011046110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408838079.jpg?v=1751432948"},{"product_id":"get-it-together-book-damian-barr-9780340829035","title":"Get it Together","description":"This is a constructive and down-to-earth guide to all the milestones you face in your twenties - first job, debt, considering pensions, redundancy, buying a place or renting, moving in together - and how to deal with them. Get It Together is structured in four parts - Work, Money, Housing and Relationships - and examines the problems they raise as well as providing lists of resources, helpful advice, and answers to the some of the questions most affecting people in their twenties - and beyond: How do you negotiate pay in your first job? Do you have to have a pension or should you just sell a kidney to buy a flat? How much debt is too much? and is it possible to be terminally single? After surviving his own quarterlife crisis, and interviewing hundreds of others in the same situation, Damian Barr has written a practical, reassuring and funny guide to sorting yourself out in your wilderness years.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638978814225,"sku":"GOR001694799","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656508186897,"sku":"GOR005235695","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340829036.jpg?v=1751456380"},{"product_id":"maggie-me-book-damian-barr-9781408838068","title":"Maggie \u0026 Me","description":"It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in  Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland,  eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding  ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive.   Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new  boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the  Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together  by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as  Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions and  makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans  his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and - in spite  of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 - manages to fall in love  dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club.   Maggie \u0026amp; Me is  a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a  story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other  side in spite of, and maybe because of, the iron lady.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49744887873809,"sku":"GOR004889301","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49897867149585,"sku":"GOR005689837","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49984074547473,"sku":"CIN1408838060VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50003620364561,"sku":"GOR010592521","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50380322898193,"sku":"CIN1408838060G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50992812359953,"sku":"GOR006808116","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408838060.jpg?v=1751424955"},{"product_id":"you-will-be-safe-here-book-damian-barr-9781444842470","title":"You Will Be Safe Here","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49784896422161,"sku":"GOR013784084","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50018015772945,"sku":"GOR011885046","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444842471.jpg?v=1751306012"},{"product_id":"maggie-me-book-damian-barr-9781620405888","title":"Maggie \u0026 Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn October 12, 1984, an IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. Meanwhile, in small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mother rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDamian, his sister, and his Catholic mother move in with her sinister new boyfriend, while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Thatcher takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions, and makes greed good. But Damian follows Maggie's advice, working hard and planning his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life, and-in spite of violence, strikes, and AIDS-manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaggie \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain.It's about coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the Iron Lady.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394965901585,"sku":"CIN1620405881G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51134462558481,"sku":"GOR014182755","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1620405881.jpg?v=1751427317"},{"product_id":"you-will-be-safe-here-book-damian-barr-9781635573510","title":"You Will Be Safe Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Irish Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBig Issue \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStrong Words\u003c\/i\u003e Pick of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e Summer Reading Pick \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful and heart-breaking story set in South Africa where two mothers - a century apart - must fight for their sons, unaware their fates are inextricably linked.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrange Free State, 1901. At the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred can only watch as the British burn their farm. The polite invaders cart them off to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp promising you will be safe here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider who just wants to be left alone with his Harry Potter books and Britney, his beloved pug. Worried he's turning out soft, his Ma and her new boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Camp, where they 'make men out of boys.' Guaranteed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The red earth of the \u003ci\u003eveldt \u003c\/i\u003ekeeps countless secrets whether beaten by the blistering sun or stretching out beneath starlit stillness. But no secret can stay buried forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50479758147857,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50479758410001,"sku":"CIN1635573513G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1635573513.jpg?v=1750960653"},{"product_id":"maggie-me-book-damian-barr-9780573000584","title":"Maggie \u0026 Me","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003679080721,"sku":"NIN9780573000584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51133180150033,"sku":"NGR9780573000584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51508028768529,"sku":"GOR014308195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52591675113745,"sku":"NLS9780573000584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0573000581.jpg?v=1750699377"},{"product_id":"two-roberts-book-damian-barr-9781805301547","title":"The Two Roberts","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD FOR FICTION 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK  A BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 FOR THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, THE HERALD AND THE BBC  'Crackles with creative rebellion' DOUGLAS STUART 'immersive, intelligent, immensely sensual' ELIF SHAFAK 'A novel that brims over with generosity and warmth' OBSERVER  He will stay like this forever, Robert's arm draped round him. They will be forever twenty.   Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he's off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with loose dark curls - and never leave his side.  Together they will spend every penny and every minute devouring Glasgow - its botanical gardens, the Barras market, a whole hidden city - all the while loving each other behind closed doors. With the world on the brink of war, their unrivalled talent will take them to Paris, Rome, London. They will become stars as the bombs fall, hosting wild parties with the likes of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Elizabeth Smart. But the brightest stars burn fastest.     Stunningly reimagined, The Two Roberts is a profoundly moving story of devotion and obsession, art and class. It is a love letter to MacBryde and Colquhoun, the almost-forgotten artists who tried to change the way the world sees - and paid a devastating price.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51606607462673,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51606607724817,"sku":"NGR9781805301547","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52097180598545,"sku":"GOR014488296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52476746137873,"sku":"NLS9781805301547","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52705535787281,"sku":"GOR014589514","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52716000248081,"sku":"GOR014593745","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1805301543.jpg?v=1759230487"},{"product_id":"two-roberts-book-damian-barr-9781837261253","title":"The Two Roberts","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD FOR FICTION 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK A BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 FOR THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, THE HERALD AND THE BBC  'Crackles with creative rebellion' DOUGLAS STUART 'immensely sensual' ELIF SHAFAK 'A novel that brims over with generosity and warmth' OBSERVER  He will stay like this forever, Robert's arm draped round him. They will be forever twenty.  Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with loose dark curls - and never leave his side. With the world on the brink of war, their unrivalled talent takes them all over Europe, partying, loving, fighting, painting. In Soho, they become stars as the bombs fall.  Based on a true story, The Two Roberts is a stunningly imagined tale of devotion and obsession, art and class. It's a love letter to two almost-forgotten artists who fought to change the way the world sees - and paid a devastating price.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53619285426449,"sku":"NGR9781837261253","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-damian-barr.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}