Jonathan Kemp

Drawing on a brilliant literary tradition of madness, incarceration, and escape, Jonathan Kemp delivers the triumphant coming of age of a woman in her sixties in Ghosting. When 64-year-old Grace Wellbeck thinks she sees the ghost of her first husband, she fears for her sanity and worries that she's having another breakdown. Long-buried memories come back thick and fast: from...

Three men, three lives, and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling, and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation, and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld. Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s and finds that a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships, most notably with...