Parable of the Sower : the New York Times bestseller by Octavia E. Butler Published on 4 June 2026

A beautiful new edition of a modern classic by celebrated, award-winning author, Octavia E. Butler. With an introduction by Levar Burton and an afterword by N.K. Jemisin.

We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.

The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from the violence breaking out across America. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others, records everything she sees of the fracturing world in her journal.

One terrible night, her home is overrun, and Lauren sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.

But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of a better way to live - and the birth of a new faith that will change humanity forever. 

Author: Octavia E. Butler

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 June 2026 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Book Publishing) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 336 pages
198 x 129