Brink by Jo Burns #Bloodaxebooks shortlisted for the Booker Prize

shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize

inheritance and faith

experience which seems intent on sending him up

he fuses earthly and divine love with an intense constancy as momentously productive as Dante's courtly adoration for Beatrice

– SJ Fowler

Brink by Jo Burns #Bloodaxebooks shortlisted for the Booker PrizeBrink is a work that bears witness to a world hovering on the edge of crisis, yet sees hope in the compassion and empathy in personal relationships that forge the unbreakable bonds that bind us. From her vantage point of the post truth, pandemic afflicted present, Jo Burns turns her fierce analytical powers to the impact of propaganda and conspiracy theories on public and private discourse. Her unwavering eye roves over the bloody history of the 20th