The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE. 'Just so brilliant' John Green. 'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People.

 Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856.

When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm.

An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure story and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

Author: James McBride

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 August 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 480 pages
198 x 131 x 31 | 334g