Bøger af Blake Morrison

In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of Heaney's poems, placing his work within both Irish and Anglo-American traditions and explaining his poetry's complex relation to the political troubles in Northern Ireland.

'A painful, funny, frightening, moving, marvellous book ... everybody should read it' Nick Hornby

TWO SISTERS will publish the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a whole genre of confessional memoir.

What matters most: marriage or friendship? Rob had invited Matt to become his literary executor at their annual boozy lunch, pointing out that, at 60, he was likely to be around for some time yet. As Jill gets to work in the back garden, Matt is forced to weigh up the merits of art and truth.

This translation of von Kliest's "Der Zerbrochene Krug", is transformed by a Yorkshire dialect and set in Skipton in 1810. It concerns Judge Adam, the agent of justice, who is visited by the magistrate Walter Clegg, seeking signs of malpractice in a trial where family grievances are unearthed.

Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison's play evokes the lives of the Bronte sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Blake Morrison's insightful, celebrated and genre-defining book about the Bulger case.

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. But dangerous tensions quickly emerge, and in the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer, Ollie and Ian resurrect a bet made twenty years before.

and Jack, Nat's unexpectedly poignant uncle, who lives for fox-hunting. 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.

In his masterpiece of family literature, And When Did you Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. From the obstacles the lovers faced, to their moments of hilarity and joy Things My Mother Never Told Me is a revealing and poignant anatomy of family conflict, love, war, and finally marriage.