Max Porter

Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables, and for all the red noise in his mind to disappear. But again and again he spirals past his senses and ends up with his head in his hands and carnage around him. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY 'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Beautiful and haunting.' KEVIN BARRY 'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' IAN RANKIN 'A miracle of language.' IRISH TIMES This is the story of a few strange hours in the...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her...

'A little masterpiece.' - Irish Times 'Luminous.' - Observer 'One of our most exciting writers.' - The Spectator Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair, they are visited by Crow—antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until...

The painter Francis Bacon lies on his deathbed and paints his last paintings. In lyrical and haunting language, Max Porter approaches the artist by immersing himself in the state of a dying body and in the essence of his oeuvre. A sensual and daring experiment that has never been seen before.

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to...

Madrid.Unfinished.Man Dying.A great painter lies on his deathbed. In a burst of literary brilliance, Max Porter translates into seven written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

Eight Ghosts features eight authors who were granted exclusive access to their chosen English Heritage site, ranging from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in historical atmospheres and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their imaginations into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Following these tales by the contemporary writers, there is a section by...