11/06/2026
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Introducing... Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves, an award-winning debut that heralds the arrival of a profound new voice in British fiction
‘As I hold her, as the white sky spits at us, something inside me breaks, and I know I’ve been a fool. How could I let this happen? Day by day, this little family have sunk their roots into my skin.’
Travis lives an unassuming life with his cat in a small English town. Travis also happens to be the cosmic force of Death, visiting people in their final days and hours of life, before shepherding them into whatever happens next.
He listens to their stories, doesn’t judge, and never tries to change anyone’s fate… until he meets a young, single midwife called Dalia and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter, Layla. As he gets closer to this small, seemingly unremarkable family, Travis begins to learn what it is that makes life so worth living, and so what it is that is irrevocably lost in death.
Full of compassion and deep magic, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt might be a novel about Death, but it’s also about the joy of being alive – appreciating each day we have, from the people around us to the strange wonder of our spinning world.
Fiction | 304 pages | Hardback | 2nd July 2026 | £16.99
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