The School of Night
$59.97
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2025
Summary
Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. The utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Death in the Family.
An almost dangerously immersive reading experience that will completely take over your life… by turns bleak, funny and horrifying, but never less than utterly captivating’ Martin MacInnes, Booker longlisted author of IN ASCENSION.
London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787304208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787304205 |
| Author: | Martin Aitken, Karl Ove Knausgaard |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 165mm x 44mm |
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Critics Review
Inspired…a damned masterpiece * The Times *
There is nothing in contemporary publishing to remotely compare to Knausgaard’s Morning Star series. Knausgaard has always been brilliant on families and the domestic, on the minutiae of the everyday and the quiet, lonely rituals and habits of personality. But in combining this with elements of genre and even pulp fiction - crime-thriller, horror and the occult - he has unleashed something entirely new, an antic and almost dangerously immersive reading experience that will completely take over your life. There is something obliterative about its intensity; I read hundreds of pages on a bus journey in slow-moving traffic, completely oblivious to everything around me.The first of the series set in London, The School of Night is by turns bleak, funny and horrifying, but never less than utterly captivating. Knausgaard seems to have struck on an endlessly generative seam, resulting in an almost deranged hypergraphia, and there appears no limit to where he may take us next.
– Martin MacInnes, Booker longlisted author of IN ASCENSIONKnausgaard has surpassed even his phenomenally high standards with his latest novel. This dark and macabre offering is incredibly addictive… an intense but hugely rewarding read * Daily Mirror *Ingenious…engrossing…a remarkable addition to an exciting and disturbing series * Publishers Weekly *Sinister and surreal…A parable of ambition , told with epic heft - and a decent place to start if you’ve been curious about this writer but never read yet him . * Daily Mail *An addictive and eerie reading experience * Guardian *The School Of Night is another startling, gripping entry in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star series. I love spending time in this ripe, mysterious, unsettling, thought provoking, unpredictable and darkly entertaining world Knausgaard is in the process of creating. – Colin Barrett, Booker longlisted author of WILD HOUSESThe School of NIght is a good place to start for anyone who hasn’t read Knausgaard before * NRK *Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes – Torrey PetersA deeply strange, polyphonic gothic novel with echoes of Bram Stoker… conjures a fictive world that is at once strikingly humane, unsettling, and wholly unique – Ferdia Lennon on THE THIRD REALMAbout The Author
Martin Aitken
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.
Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken’s translations of Scandinavian fiction are widely published. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award and the US National Book Awards, among other prizes. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019 and, for the first book in the Morning Star cycle, the US National Translation Award in Prose in 2022. He lives in Denmark.
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