Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroug...
On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story...
When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived...
'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time..' So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction, which elicits a world of meanings...