The author of "Grief Is The Thing With Feathers" presents in this new novel a village outside London where lives of the present and lives that played out there hundreds of years ago interweave. Dead Papa Toothwort awakes from his slumber...

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair...

The Death of Francis Bacon von Porter, Max

Longlisted for the 2019 Booker PrizeAn entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThere's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick...

Shy von Porter, Max

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