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The School of Night
  • Published: 6 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787304208
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $65.00
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The School of Night

  • Karl Ove Knausgaard
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11 Nov 2025
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6 Nov 2025
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6 Nov 2025
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6 Dec 2025
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Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. The utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Death in the Family

'[An] almost dangerously immersive reading experience that will completely take over your life. . . by turns bleak, funny and horrifying, but never less than utterly captivating' Martin MacInnes, Booker longlisted author of IN ASCENSION

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.

Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students bore him. But he knows he and his art are destined for more.

Then he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist. With Hans, the future Kristian yearns for is tangible. All art is possible. Any line can be crossed.

But success comes at a price. And when Kristian does the unthinkable, will he be prepared to pay it?

Electrifying and unflinching, The School of Night is a singular novel about artistic creation and human corruption. It is the story of one terrible man's rise and fall, and a reckoning with the darkest parts of human nature.

PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:

‘Absorbs you utterly’ Sunday Times
‘One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I’ve ever read’ Brandon Taylor
‘Addictive’ Daily Telegraph
‘Brilliant storytelling . . . Epic’ Independent
‘As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama’ Spectator
‘Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive’’ New York Times

The School of Night is set in the Morning Star universe.
  • Published: 6 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787304208
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $65.00
Categories:

Praise for The School of Night

The School of NIght is a good place to start for anyone who hasn't read Knausgaard before

NRK

Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes

Torrey Peters

The School Of Night is another startling, gripping entry in Karl Ove Knausgaard's Morning Star series. I love spending time in this ripe, mysterious, unsettling, thought provoking, unpredictable and darkly entertaining world Knausgaard is in the process of creating.

Colin Barrett, Booker longlisted author of WILD HOUSES

A deeply strange, polyphonic gothic novel with echoes of Bram Stoker. . . conjures a fictive world that is at once strikingly humane, unsettling, and wholly unique

Ferdia Lennon on THE THIRD REALM

This dark and macabre offering is one of the most incredibly addictive books I’ve ever read… an intense but hugely rewarding read

UK Press Syndication

Knausgaard has always been brilliant on families and the domestic.... But in combining this with elements of genre and even pulp fiction - crime-thriller, horror and the occult - he has unleashed something entirely new, an antic and almost dangerously immersive reading experience that will completely take over your life.

Martin MacInnes, author of IN ASCENSION

Sinister and surreal...A parable of ambition , told with epic heft - and a decent place to start if you've been curious about this writer but never read yet him .

Daily Mail

Knausgaard has surpassed even his phenomenally high standards with his latest novel. This dark and macabre offering is incredibly addictive… an intense but hugely rewarding read

Daily Telegraph

Ingenious...engrossing...a remarkable addition to an exciting and disturbing series

Publishers Weekly

Inspired...a damn masterpiece

The Times