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Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEARTWO 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.

Blake Morrison's vibrant and deeply moving portrait of his father, and a raw, dazzling memoir of masculinity, family, and bereavement.

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.

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.

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A new novel from bestselling author of "As If" and "The Last Weekend", about a man who becomes the literary executor of a friend's estate. When he finds some previously unpublished and potentially explosive material, he faces a dilemma.

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.

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.

Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, two novels (most recently the acclaimed South of the River and The Last Weekend), and a study of the Bulger case, As If. He is also a poet, critic, journalist and librettist. He teaches Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and lives in south London.

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. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible consequences.

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.

Blake Morrison has woven a stunning novel around the few facts known about the life and work of Johann Gensfleisch (aka Gutenberg), master printer, charmer, con man, and visionary -- the man who invented "artificial writing" and printed the "Gutenberg Bible, putting thousands of monks out of work. In this dazzling debut novel, Morrison gives Gutenberg's final testament: a justification and apologia he dictated, ironically, to one of the young...

Trade paperback. A new collection of poems from bestselling poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison, his first full-length collection for nearly 30 years. A piercing examination of change amid a shifting world.

Morrison's follow-up to "When Did You Last See Your Father?". A poignant study of family conflict, love, war and marriage. Offers an insight into life during W.W.II. "Morrison's prose has the diamond cut of a poet's eye, and his story is suffused with warmth and longing...he has brought his mother vividly to life in an outstanding work of family literature" "Independent".

Morrisons memoir of the life and death of his father was one of the best-reviewed books of 1995, and promises to be an enduring classic of family literature--a work that explores the deepest emotions of being a father and a son.

The Cracked Pot is more than a translation of Heinrich von Kleist's Der Zerbrochene Krug, as the action now takes place in'skipton, Yorkshire, in 1810, with Kleist's German verse transformed into tough Yorkshire dialect. Funny, earthy and satirical, the play concerns Judge Adam, Skipton's sole agent of justice, who is far from happy to be visited by the investigating magistrate Walter Clegg, seeking out signs of malpractice.|4 women, 5 men

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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 appears before her. "Come and play with me, " he beckons. He leads her through an enchanted garden, showing her all its marvelous inhabitants: a tiger ...