Adam Mars-Jones

Box Hill - A 2020 Spectator Book of the Year 'I took one look at him, and I saw what he really wanted.' On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out in Surrey. Timid, awkward, and very much out of his element, he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker...

'We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner, way over there?' 'People in authority are always saying you should know your rights, though I've noticed they don't much enjoy it when you do.' 'Nobody can be a person twenty-four hours a day - it...