Albion

One of our most gifted contemporary writers

Waterstones, praise for Expectation

One of our most gifted contemporary writers

Waterstones, praise for Expectation

A superb novel deftly woven around themes of class, national identity and environmental collapse. In Albion Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama

Jonathan Coe, author of Middle England

A superb novel deftly woven around themes of class, national identity and environmental collapse. In Albion Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama

Jonathan Coe, author of Middle England

A compassionate, immersive novel that intelligently navigates historical pride and guilt, and the echo of history that resonates powerfully through the lives of Anna Hope’s compelling contemporary characters. Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become

Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing

A compassionate, immersive novel that intelligently navigates historical pride and guilt, and the echo of history that resonates powerfully through the lives of Anna Hope’s compelling contemporary characters. Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become

Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing

The English country house novel re-imagined for our times: an exceptionally well-drawn portrait of a battling family, which also astutely wrestles with the issues around rewilding, inheritance, and colonialism

Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

The English country house novel re-imagined for our times: an exceptionally well-drawn portrait of a battling family, which also astutely wrestles with the issues around rewilding, inheritance, and colonialism

Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

Anna Hope’s beautiful new novel Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender

Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

Anna Hope’s beautiful new novel Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender

Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

It was around halfway through the first paragraph of Albion that I knew I had fallen in love with this book ... Anna Hope writes hauntingly beautiful poetic prose, and draws you deep into the heart of this family, their pain, joy, and love of the land they inhabit ... The book explores important, topical themes of today - nature, land and land ownership, climate change, class, and a contemporary reframing of colonial history - in a rich, layered, yet accessible way. I was inspired in particular by the way Anna Hope writes about human relationships with the natural world - as observer, actor, perpetrator, saviour, friend and foe ... This is a novel I will return to again and again

Louisa Adjoa Parker

It was around halfway through the first paragraph of Albion that I knew I had fallen in love with this book ... Anna Hope writes hauntingly beautiful poetic prose, and draws you deep into the heart of this family, their pain, joy, and love of the land they inhabit ... The book explores important, topical themes of today - nature, land and land ownership, climate change, class, and a contemporary reframing of colonial history - in a rich, layered, yet accessible way. I was inspired in particular by the way Anna Hope writes about human relationships with the natural world - as observer, actor, perpetrator, saviour, friend and foe ... This is a novel I will return to again and again

Louisa Adjoa Parker

A book that asks important questions about legacy - familial, historical and global - and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose

Elizabeth Day

A book that asks important questions about legacy - familial, historical and global - and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose

Elizabeth Day

Anna Hope plunges us straight into the claustrophobic world of a family turned inside out by the death of the deeply flawed patriarch, and propels us towards a devastating conclusion. Compelling

Kirsty Wark

Anna Hope plunges us straight into the claustrophobic world of a family turned inside out by the death of the deeply flawed patriarch, and propels us towards a devastating conclusion. Compelling

Kirsty Wark

This book, its fascinating characters, steady paced plot and haunting prose will stay with you long after reading

Cosmopolitan, ‘The 25 books we can’t wait to read in 2025’

This book, its fascinating characters, steady paced plot and haunting prose will stay with you long after reading

Cosmopolitan, ‘The 25 books we can’t wait to read in 2025’

There are shades of both Succession and Saltburn at play here, with Albion promising more of the emotional acuity that Anna Hope wielded so well in 2019’s Expectation

Independent – The best books to look out for in 2025

There are shades of both Succession and Saltburn at play here, with Albion promising more of the emotional acuity that Anna Hope wielded so well in 2019’s Expectation

Independent – The best books to look out for in 2025

The first British reparations novel ... I liked it a lot, being reminded of Toni Morrison's A Mercy in the tracing of different forms of power and privilege bestowed by gender and class as well as race …. 'The history of the transatlantic slave-trade is no longer a personal matter' is a text for our times

Nick Draper, founder of the Transatlantic Slave Trade database

The first British reparations novel ... I liked it a lot, being reminded of Toni Morrison's A Mercy in the tracing of different forms of power and privilege bestowed by gender and class as well as race …. 'The history of the transatlantic slave-trade is no longer a personal matter' is a text for our times

Nick Draper, founder of the Transatlantic Slave Trade database

A tour de force of a book. I love how Anna Hope weaves big ideas seamlessly into a compelling plot. It’s such a fine balance to strike and she does it so skilfully.

Roxy Dunn, author of As Young As This

A tour de force of a book. I love how Anna Hope weaves big ideas seamlessly into a compelling plot. It’s such a fine balance to strike and she does it so skilfully.

Roxy Dunn, author of As Young As This

Albion is exquisitely put together, with a tight structure and richly drawn characters

Literary Review

Albion is exquisitely put together, with a tight structure and richly drawn characters

Literary Review

Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma - without telling the reader what to think ... I closed Albion with a delicious sense of uncertainty

Sunday Times

Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma - without telling the reader what to think ... I closed Albion with a delicious sense of uncertainty

Sunday Times

At once a sumptuous family drama and state-of-the-nation novel

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At once a sumptuous family drama and state-of-the-nation novel

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