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Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel

Station Eleven

Name: Station Eleven
SKU: STEL
Price: 70 GBP
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Author: Emily St John Mandel

£70

Illustrated by Zoë van Dijk

Introduced By the author

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, a travelling Shakespeare troupe keeps art and memory alive in a fractured world. With haunting illustrations by Zoë van Dijk and a new introduction by Emily St John Mandel, this Folio book is a hopeful, unforgettable vision of survival and human connection.

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Book Details

Production DetailsBound in textured paper, printed and blocked with a design by the artist
Printed slipcase

Dimensions9½ inches × 6¾ inches (24.1 × 17.2 cm)

FontTypeset in Sirba with Futura as display

Pages344

AuthorEmily St John Mandel

Illustrated byZoë van Dijk

IllustrationFrontispiece and 6 colour illustrations, including one double-page spread

Publication Date03/03/2026

PrintingFirst Printing

Editor's Notes

Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic novel unlike any other. A deadly flu sweeps across the globe, erasing 99% of the population. Two decades later, those who remain endeavour not merely to survive, but to live, to find meaning and to hope for more. Though it bears all the hallmarks of great post-apocalyptic fiction – including fanatical cults and desolate cities – this is above all a novel about hope. With heartbreaking poignance and clarity, Station Eleven affirms that humanity can endure, and even flourish, in the bleakest moments.

For this first-ever illustrated version of Station Eleven, artist Zoë van Dijk has created seven beautiful illustrations capturing the novel's most striking moments. The cover and slipcase form a powerful diptych: the same landscape shown 20 years apart. The slipcase depicts the day the pandemic began, while the cover shows that world transformed – overgrown and reclaimed by nature. This book also includes a brand-new introduction from the author, reflecting on how the world has change in the decade and a half since the book's first publication.

Synopsis

One snowy night in Toronto, a famous actor collapses during a theatre production of King Lear. Hours later, a deadly flu begins its devastating sweep across the globe. Civilisation crumbles – but not everything is lost.

Twenty years on, a troupe called the Travelling Symphony moves between scattered settlements, performing Shakespeare for audiences hungry for meaning in the aftermath. Among them is Kirsten, a young actress haunted by the past and by a mysterious comic book that has survived the collapse.

Station Eleven is a luminous meditation on memory, art and human connection – a novel that moves between timelines to explore what binds us together when the world falls apart. Beautiful, unsettling and unexpectedly hopeful, it asks the question: if everything changed, what would you hold on to?

About the Illustrator

Zoë van Dijk

Zoë van Dijk is an award-winning illustrator who hails from the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Her work has been honoured by the Society of Illustrators, American Society of Magazine Editors, American Illustration, 3x3 and the World Illustration Awards. When not drawing she enjoys reading, quilting, baking and gardening at her home in Los Angeles where she lives with an elderly, opinionated dog and less elderly but equally opinionated partner.

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Zoë Van dijk

‘I was so incredibly honoured to illustrate this profoundly moving book about the endurance of art and how it provides a shelter through time and trauma. It's no small thing for an author to trust someone else with their book -- I always feel like I'm being asked to hold a baby bird in my hands. It's a privilege I never take for granted, especially when it's a book I connect with as much as I did with “Station Eleven”, from the character studies of relatable characters trying survive their own memories to the lush landscape descriptions of the world before and after an event. I hope I did it justice.’

About the Author

Emily St John Mandel is the author of six novels, most recently Sea of Tranquility (2022), which has been translated into 25 languages and was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favourite books of 2022. Her previous novels include The Glass Hotel (2020), which was also on Obama's list, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has been translated into 26 languages; and Station Eleven (2014; Folio 2026), which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/FaulknerAward, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honours, has been translated into 36 languages, and aired as a limited series on HBO Max. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

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