The Rabbit Club

Christopher J. Yates

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HARPER360
01 September 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The author of Black Chalk, ‘the smart summer thriller you’ve been waiting for’ (NPR), returns with a mesmerising new novel about a dangerous secret society at Oxford University and the first-year literature student whose life unravels in its shadow.

When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, it’s a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in England; to meet true intellectuals; and to glimpse the life he might have lived had his father — British rock star Gel McCain, legendary front man of the Pale Fires — not abandoned him and his mother when he was a toddler.

But not long after he arrives, Ali is drawn into a dark, disorienting world where events grow more curious by the day. Trading on his father’s name, he gains entry into one of Oxford’s oldest and most selective secret societies, the Saracens. As he immerses himself in this rarefied world, he inadvertently sets in motion a series of events that might culminate in disaster.

A mind-bending literary house of mirrors, replete with bookish allusions and Easter eggs ranging from Brideshead Revisited to King Lear, The Rabbit Club is an arresting new work from a writer of ‘extraordinary skill’ (Washington Post).

By: Christopher J. Yates
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 434g
ISBN: 9781038960160
ISBN 10: 1038960169
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Yates is the author of Black Chalk and Grist Mill Road. Black Chalk was an Indie Next Pick that was also named a best book of the year by NPR, and a 'must read' by the Boston Globe, BBC.com and the New York Post. He was born in London and studied law at Wadham College, Oxford, and lives in New York with his wife and his dog.