Martin John

Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize

Among The National Post's Top 5 Books of 2015

Among The Toronto Star's Top 5 Fiction Books of 2015

Among Largehearted Boy's Favourite Novels of 2015

One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015

Among The Edmonton Journal's Top 5 Books of 2015

A 49th Shelf Book of the Year, 2015

Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015

Martin John's mam says that she is glad he is done with it. But is Martin John done with it? He says he wants it to stop, his mother wants it to stop, we all want it to stop. But is it really what Martin John wants? He had it in his mind to do it and he did it. Harm was done when he did it. Harm would continue to be done. Who will stop Martin John? Will you stop him? Should she stop him?

From Anakana Schofield, the brilliant author of the bestselling Malarky, comes a darkly comic novel circuiting through the mind, motivations and preoccupations of a character many women have experienced but few have understood quite so well. The result confirms Schofield as one of the bravest and most innovative authors at work in English today.

Anakana Schofield is an Irish-born writer, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky.


Author: Anakana Schofield
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781771960342


Award: Scotiabank Giller Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/26/2015
Quill & Quire 11/01/2015 pg. 24
New York Times Book Review 01/03/2016 pg. 23
New York Times Book Review 01/10/2016 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 01/11/2016 pg. 69
Foreword 02/29/2016

About the Author
Anakana Schofield won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky. Irish-Canadian, she has lived in London and in Dublin, Ireland and presently lives in Vancouver. Malarky was also nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and named on many best books of 2012 lists. Schofield has contributed criticism and essays to the London Review of Books Blog, The Guardian, The Irish Times and The Globe and Mail and more.