Little Ruins

Rebuilding a Life

Manni Coe author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Canongate Books

Publishing:28th Aug '25

£16.99

This title is due to be published on 28th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Little Ruins cover

'Beautifully written and deeply moving' CLARE BALDING
'An important voice' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
'I devoured it in a day . . . An open-hearted book' CLOVER STROUD

The Corner is a place where birds with broken wings will come to heal.

Looking to begin a new chapter after years on the move, Manni Coe and his partner take a risk and buy 'The Corner', a crumbling but beautiful 150-year-old farmstead tucked into a remote valley in Andalusia, surrounded by olive trees. It's perfect for their unconventional family of three: Jack, Manni and his youngest brother, Reuben. Secluded from the village by a river and in awe of the extraordinary Spanish landscape, Manni watches their land teem with mountain goats and wild boar, red deer and seasonal swallows. He begins to feel that this might be the place where each of them will find their peace.

But nothing is ever so simple. Though their hilltop village offers food, fellowship and guidance, many visitors bring their own problems and troubled pasts over the river. While Manni and Jack work to afford rebuilding The Corner, who will care for Reuben in the way that he deserves? And as Manni starts to realise that the scars from his childhood - kept hidden for all these years - might not have healed at all, a single, terrible event threatens everything the three of them have spent so long building together.

From landscape and poetry to family and friendship, Little Ruins is a heart-mending exploration of human connection, nature's gifts and the power of love in all its forms.

Little Ruins is beautifully written and deeply moving. The power of Manni's story and the depth of his soul will stay with you long after you've read the final chapter -- CLARE BALDING
Manni Coe is not only a beautiful human being and writer but also an important voice on trauma -- CATHY RENTZENBRINK
I loved this book so much and devoured it in a day. All of life is contained in this beautiful story of love and grief, addiction and recovery, despair and redemption. An open-hearted book that I found deeply consoling -- CLOVER STROUD
"We live in a world of beauty and brutality and there, in the balance, am I," writes Manni Coe in his expansive and luminescent memoir. He takes his readers from the rugged landscapes of Andalusia to the painful recesses of lingering traumas. Deeply intimate and told with generous observation, his writing thrums with glorious verve. At its core, Little Ruins is a rallying cry for living a life truly connected to the land and within community -- ANDRÉS N. ORDORICA
Manni Coe's Little Ruins is many things: chief among which is a memoir of place, that marks trauma and evokes language alongside love and limitation. It is also a map of remembering, pairing pain with the patience of time, family, solitude and friendship -- PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA
This is such a beautiful book - poetic, compelling and, ultimately, deeply healing. Many have tried to capture the soul of the Andalusian landscape, but few have succeeded so well as Manni Coe. He is the perfect companion for a journey into a magical world that will continue to resonate well beyond the final page -- JASON WEBSTER
I so admire the naked honesty with which Manni lays bare his past struggles and traumas. Rarely have I read a memoir with so much beating heart on the page - it pulses with pain but also with grace and love. What's also magical about this book is the setting; and the way in which the elemental and often brutal beauty of the Andalusian landscape works its alchemy on the little ruins of ordinary human lives -- CAROLINE SANDERSON
Emotionally intelligent and deeply thoughtful . . . We could all do with embracing those people and places that feel like home, with being honest and open with those we love. Manni's book blazes a trail in that regard. We should be grateful it exists -- Waterstones Bookseller Review
This is a book to share with friends and discuss in book clubs. Let the beauty of Little Ruins wash over and transform readers with its tenderness. It is a triumph -- PAMELA KLINGER-HORN
With the heart of a poet and a gift for making the reader feel as though they are walking side by side with him, Manni brings us into his home and his world . . . Little Ruins is tender, touching and will lay hands on your soul -- MARY O'MALLEY

ISBN: 9781837263240

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

352 pages

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