On Friendship : From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road

On Friendship : From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian RoadAuthor: Andrew O'Hagan Literary essays Published on 9 October 2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom. Hardback 160 pages 175 x 138 x 19 204g 'A witty, heartfelt but intelligent celebration of what it means to have great friends.' The Times 'Delightful.' Guardian 'The overwhelming tone of the book is joy, along with an optimism about friendship's enduring essence.' Sunday Times A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearFrom the bestselling

Author: Andrew O'Hagan

Literary essays

Published on 9 October 2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 160 pages
175 x 138 x 19 | 204g

'A witty, heartfelt but intelligent celebration of what it means to have great friends.' The Times 'Delightful.' Guardian 'The overwhelming tone of the book is joy, along with an optimism about friendship's enduring essence.' Sunday Times A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearFrom the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.

If we are lucky in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean faces; they will come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life; some will span decades, and some will be only fleeting. But the thing they will all have in common is that life is not only unimaginable - but unimagined - without them.

In these gorgeous personal reflections, Andrew O'Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry, memory and history, illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together, and how our lives are all the better because we do.

Andrew O'Hagan's novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024