Outcast English 2026

**A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR**

Encountering the last leprosarium in Europe and remote villages in Mozambique, moving through Siberian settlements and Brazil's hinterlands, Outcast travels the margins of society and charts the history of a misunderstood disease.

In doing so, it shines new light on the human condition, asking: does our sense of self always rely on the ostracisation of another?

'Shocking, moving and sensitive.' TLS
'Uplifting.' THE TIMES
'Fascinating.' SPECTATOR
'Remarkable.' LITERARY REVIEW
'Gripping.' NATURE

'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.'
PHILIPPE SANDS

'It is impossible not to be moved by the lives unfolding in these pages, impossible not to be left transformed and enlightened. '
LEILA ABOULELA

WINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD