In 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?', Blake Morrison's mother remains an intriguing but mostly silent figure. One of the many things she never quite told him was that before becoming Kim Morrison she had been Agnes O'Shea. This is her story - and a son's search to uncover the truth.
In 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?', Blake Morrison's mother remains an intriguing but mostly silent figure. One of the many things she never ...
Beneath the bright familiar world of Blair's Britain, there's a dark undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths that circle round our apparently comfortable lives. This book presents a tale of five people, two rivers, and many Englands, metropolitan and rural, black and white, and is filled with art and life.
Beneath the bright familiar world of Blair's Britain, there's a dark undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths th...
Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's novel is a taut, atmospheric, brilliantly chilling story of a rivalrous friendship and of the green-eyed monster that eats the soul.
Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's novel is a taut, atmospheric, brilliantly chilling story of a rivalrous friendship and of the...
In his first full-length collection for nearly 30 years, 'Shingle Street' sees a return to the form with which Blake Morrison started his career. Set along the Suffolk coast, the opening poems address a receding world - an eroding landscape, 'abashed by the ocean's passion'. But coastal life gives way to other, more dangerous, vistas: a wave unleashes a flood-tide of terror; a sequence of topical poems lays bare pressing political issues; while elsewhere portraits of the past bring forth the dear and the departed. Beneath the surface of this collection is an undertow of loss: a piercing...
In his first full-length collection for nearly 30 years, 'Shingle Street' sees a return to the form with which Blake Morrison started his career. Set ...
