All That Is
03 April 2025
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Enthralling’ - John Banville
‘Effortlessly beautiful, funny, sexy and wise’ - Julie Myerson, Books of the Year, Observer
All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change.
The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in...
Details
03 April 2025
304 pages
9781035063550
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A beautiful novel, with sufficient love, heartbreak, vengeance, identity confusion, longing, and euphoria of language to have satisfied ShakespeareJohn Irving
The best novel I’ve read in years. All That Is will be treasured by its readers. Salter’s vivid, lucid prose does exquisite justice to his subject – the relentless struggle to make good on our own humanity. Once again he has delivered to us a novel of the highest artistryTim O’Brien
Effortlessly beautiful, funny, sexy and wise – the kind of novel that makes you want to delete your own meagre work-in-progress and start over. Is there a How to Write Like Salter Handbook? If so, that's what I want for Christmas, please.Julie Myerson, The Observer
Not in my (admittedly failing) memory have I read a novel that, at its crucialest moment, made me just stand straight up out of my chair and have to walk around the room for several minutes. Laid into the customary Salterish verbal exquisiteness and vivid intelligence is such remarkable audacity and dark-hued verve about us poor humans. It's a great novel.Richard Ford, The Guardian