The new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Within the pages of this address book you will find not only names and places, but lives with their everyday griefs and joys, and their everyday braveries. A doctor revisits a formative sexual...

It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable,...

Reggie Rainbow has found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself: it's his job to make sure that some things stay out of sight and out of mind. Reggie Rainbow is an angry young man who treads the backstage...

A man. A woman. A disappearance boy. This is the story of Reggie, an illusionist’s assistant, and the performances that come to define him. Reggie Rainbow got his name at the orphanage. He had polio as a child, and seventeen years of using crutches...