Blake Morrison

As touching as it is funny, a new collection charting love, loss and life's small wonders from Blake Morrison, the best-selling memoirist and poet. Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age - Fiona Benson Here you are, on the balcony, the sea serenading you, the sun with its...

A delightful compendium of musings from the master of life writing, the much-loved Blake Morrison, for those who practise the art of memoir, and those who read it. Hallelujah! — now is the perfect time for Morrison’s book On Memoir THE TIMES On Memoir is a gloriously freewheeling exploration of narrative non-fiction, its challenges, ethics and charms, and its power...

'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR Two 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. ‘She’s gone, that’s all, and though there’s no retrieving her I’d like to make sense of who she was...

And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When he exhaled his last breath? When he last sat up and said something? When he last recognized me? When he last smiled? Blake Morrison's memoir is a candid, profoundly moving reflection on his relationship with his father, Arthur. Following...