FOLK
(2025)
A bittersweet tale of friendship, fidelity and finding your own path
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“Evocative, funny and bittersweet. Macbeth crafts a rave folk tale brimming with Shane Meadows levels of small town Englishness. Full of dodgy situations, crumbling ideals, first love and finding magic in the mundane, all set to the rising pulse of free rave culture drawing ever closer.”
- Paul Hanford, author of Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys into an Electronic Music & Club Culture Capital
“All hail Stef Macbeth - I've been a fan since I read his first word. His inevitable move into fiction is 20 years overdue.”
- Emily Hill, author of Bad Romance and Love In Late Capitalism
An earlier draft of FOLK was longlisted for the 2023 McKitterick Prize, awarded annually by the British Society of Authors for a first novel by an author aged 40 or over.
Ravers, circa 1994
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︎An unofficial playlist inspired by scenes from the book