On Friendship
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
Published on 9. October 2025
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-571-39747-1 (ISBN)
Description
'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 Year
From 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
'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 Year
From 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
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 170 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-39747-1 (9780571397471)
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Person
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.