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You Don't Have To Live Like This

From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives

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You Don't Have To Live Like This

By: Benjamin Markovits
Narrated by: Daniel Rowan
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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE REST OF OUR LIVES
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE

Ten years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. But for every urban misfit who's come for a fresh start, there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials.

'Intense and very funny.' Guardian, 'Best Novels of 2015'
'Is Markovits contemporary fiction's best kept secret?' Independent on Sunday
'Remarkable.' Irish Independent
'Multi-stranded and gripping.' Sunday Times

©2026 Benjamin Markovits (P)2026 Faber & Faber
Genre Fiction
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