The Loneliness of the Long-Distance RunnerFrom the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning come stories of hardship and hope in post war Britain. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

and the journey is not accomplished without hazard and loss

wherever - and whoever - he may be

Stephen sets himself up for a vertiginous fall that will forever change his life

Wild Pets follows Iris

and betrayal - it's not enough to forge an alliance

Jack is five

It will make you count your blessings

�The first shot had been fired

A demon who may or may not exist

the history

from puberty and sexual awakenings

on a snowy night at the end of winter