Bøger af Blake Morrison

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 scribes made obsolete by his invention of movable metal type. Through the eyes of the aging narrator, we see the Middle Ages in a strange new light and witness a moment of cultural transition as dramatic as the communications revolution of today.

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.

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

The critically-acclaimed memoir and the basis for the 2007 motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim BroadbentAnd when did you last see your father? Was it last weekend or last Christmas? Was it before or after he exhaled his last breath? And was it him really, or was it a version of him, shaped by your own expectations and disappointments?Blake Morrison's subject is universal: the life and death of a parent, a father at once beloved and exasperating, charming and infuriating, domineering and terribly vulnerable. In reading about Dr. Arthur Morrison, we come to ask ourselves the same searching questions that Blake Morrison poses: Can we ever see our parents as themselves, or are they forever defined through a child's eyes? What are the secrets of their lives, and why do they spare us that knowledge? And when they die, what do they take with them that cannot be recovered or inherited?When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss has also been published as And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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.

Set along the Suffolk coast, this book includes opening poems that address a receding world - an eroding landscape, 'abashed by the ocean's passion'.

With an introduction by Blake Morrison.

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.