The long shadows

by Alan Brownjohn

Skilfully crafted and beautifully written, this novel is the story of Tim Harker-Jones, a writer bequeathed with the task of undertaking a biography of a friend from the past, an apparently xenophobic British novelist whose character could be thought to bear some resemblance to Philip Larkin. Set against the background of Thatcher's England and Ceusecscu's Romania, his task involves a series of intrigues that intertwine cultural ambition and political expediency and reveal a truth far more comolex than he initially expected.

382 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 1997

About the author

Alan Charles Brownjohn was an English poet and novelist.