Daniel Mason for Country People

This autumn, we are delighted to welcome award-winning novelist Daniel Mason back to the bookshop to celebrate his forthcoming book, _Country People._'Told with warmth and wit, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' LUCY STEEDS, AUTHOR OF _THE ARTIST_'Full of joy - and exactly the kind of reading experience we could all do with right now.

The book of the summer' MICK HERRONMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles.

He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family.So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's, words, 'a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere'.

Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.DANIEL MASON is a doctor and author of _The Piano Tuner_, _A Far Country_, _The Winter Soldier_, and (2020), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

His work has been translated into 28 languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

His short stories and essays have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award and an O.

Henry Prize.

He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.