The Weight of Angels
$48.65
- Hardcover
624 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2026
Summary
A gloriously reimagined life of Oscar Wilde from the bestselling author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies.
“John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels is wise, imaginative, funny, and extremely moving. Art and Life, Tragedy and Love, you’ll find them all here in this rich and magnificent novel.” - Tan Twan Eng, Booker longlisted author of The House of Doors
Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well li…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529943849 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529943841 |
| Author: | John Boyne |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Doubleday |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 813g |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 165mm x 244mm |
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Critics Review
A spectacularly cheeky piece of speculative fiction, gleefully celebrating the possibilities of queer genius, subversive influence and alternative history. It also shows Boyne channeling his own bruising experience of notoriety into a moving exploration of regret and rehabilitation. – Patrick Gale
John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels is wise, imaginative, funny, and extremely moving. Art and Life, Tragedy and Love, you’ll find them all here in this rich and magnificent novel. – Tan Twan Eng, Booker longlisted author of THE HOUSE OF DOORS
The Weight of Angels is a marvellous conceit – a word Oscar himself might employ – a richly inventive multi-media novel of literary might-have-beens. Boyne is at the very tip-top of his form, and the book is at once highly readable and an intellectual treat for Wildeans and the wide world. – John Banville
John Boyne confers a second immortality on Oscar Wilde in this counterfactual life of the writer. It is granularly imagined, witty, hugely pleasurable to read, and exceptionally moving. A great public wrong can ruin a life, as it did Wilde’s. Boyne’s great imaginative generosity is to rescue, in fiction, a damaged reputation and let it live again, live anew. – Neel Mukherjee
John Boyne
John Boyne is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, a picture book, and a collection of short stories.
His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet, and opera.
His many international bestsellers include The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky.
He has won four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year in 2022, along with a host of other international literary prizes. Most recently, he won both the 2025 Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du Roman FNAC in France for The Elements.
His novels are published in sixty languages.
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