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And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
Category: Biography
Blake Morrison's vibrant and deeply moving portrait of his father, and a raw, dazzling memoir of masculinity, family, and bereavement.
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
Category: Biography Memoir
First published in 1993, Blake Morrison's "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" is an extraordinary portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. It became a bestseller, and inspired a whole genre of confessional memoirs. This new edition includes a new afterword by the author."A ...Show more
Justification Of Johann Gutenburg by Morrison Blake
Category: Fiction
Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Some sixty years later he died — robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. In his dazzling first novel, Morrison gives us Gutenberg’s “testament” — his justific ...Show more
South of the River by Blake Morrison
Category: Fiction
Intimate and disconcerting, compelling and comic, an anatomy of the way things are, South of the River is the big British novel for our times - and a tour de force.It opens on the 'new dawn' of Labour's election victory in 1997, and ends five years later. But this is not so much 'state of the nation' as ...Show more
The Executor by Blake Morrison
Category: Fiction
What matters most- marriage or friendship? fidelity or art? the wishes of the living or the talents of the dead? Matt Holmes finds himself considering these questions sooner than he thinks when his friend, the poet Robert Pope, dies unexpectedly. Rob had invited Matt to become his literary executor at t ...Show more
The Justification of Johann Gutenberg by Blake Morrison
Category: Fiction
Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose invention of moveable metal type was to change the written word for ever and alter the course of history itself. Johann Gutenberg died 60 years later, robbed of his business, his printing presses and, so he thought, of his immortality.
The Yellow House by Blake Morrison
Category: Graphic Novels
This is a favorite back in print! A child discovers, in the old house and overgrown garden she passes every day, that wonders wait in secret. One day, on the way to the park, a little girl climbs the gate of an old yellow house. Although no one has lived there for a very long time, a little boy suddenly ...Show more
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison
Category: Biography
In his masterpiece of family literature, And When Did Yuo Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. This is her startling and touching story - and a son's search to discover the truth about the remarkable Kerry girl who qualified as a doctor in Dub ...Show more
Two Sisters by Blake Morrison
Category: Biography Memoir
'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir. 'She's gone, that's all, and though there's no retrieving ...Show more
Two Sisters by Blake Morrison
Category: Biography Memoir
'A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting' HOWARD JACOBSON'Beautiful. Affecting. Erudite.' SUSIE ORBACHTWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional m ...Show more
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