Jay, once a promising artist but now a van driver, finds himself delivering groceries to a successful former lover from his art school days. An insightful portrait of the creative impulse and the rapacious demands of the art world.
A fictionalised account of Eric Blair’s service in the Burmese colonial police, an experience which changed him from a schoolboy into a writer embittered by his experience of colonialism, and ready to reinvent himself as George Orwell.
A page-turner with an extensive cast and clever plot, which offers, through its shifting perspectives and the interactions of the characters, an ambitious and intelligent analysis of contemporary London society.
Ivar, living alone on a remote Scottish island, rescues a stranger washed up on the beach and takes him in. A masterly unfolding of tensions and a brilliant depiction of solitude, connection and passion. Tender, full of surprises.