A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize-shortlisted author.
The fabulous new collection from the prize-winning poet Gerard Woodward.
It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine.
By the author of Booker-shortlisted I'll Go To Bed At Noon. Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son.
Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales.... Læs mere
A sprawling novel of war, betrayal, art and the truth of storytelling itself' (Independent) from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Gerard Woodward
A much-anticipated collection from the Somerset Maugham Award winning poet.
Contains stories with a mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, as well as dazzling moments of illumination, and intimations of mortality (in 'A Ford Mondeo' and 'Gardening').