Books written by Blake Morrison

Stop What You're Doing And Read This!

In the ten essays in this book some of our finest authors and passionate advocates from the worlds of science, publishing, technology and social enterprise tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken ...
Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods

With sales in hardback of 10,000 this collection has already helped the Woodland Trust plant nearly 50,000 trees across the United Kingdom, and it is now available in paperback for the first time.
Justification of Johann Gutenberg: A Novel

Thus Morrison conjures up the haunting figure of Gutenberg himself: a man who gambled everything — money, honour, friendship and a woman’s love — on the greatest invention of the last millennium.
Selected Poems

This volume brings poems from his two earlier collections, Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, together with his libretto for Kindertotenlieder; and a new sequence of love poems exploring the misunderstandings between men ...
When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss

In a memoir of his father's life and death, the author asks if we can ever see parents as themselves, why they cannot reveal their secrets to us, and what they take with them that cannot be recovered when they die.
The Executor

Marriage or friendship? The wishes of the living or the talents of the dead? Literary executor Matt Holmes finds himself considering these questions sooner than he thinks when his friend, the poet Robert Pope, dies unexpectedly.
Shingle Street

Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents. Born in Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist, critic, journalist and librettist.
The Yellow House

A little girl's fascination with the yellow house she passes each day leads her into its garden which is full of fantastic surprises.
The Justification of Johann Gutenberg: A Novel

In this dazzling debut novel, Morrison gives Gutenberg's final testament: a justification and apologia he dictated, ironically, to one of the young scribes made obsolete by his invention of movable metal type.
The Last Weekend

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian.
The Gospel According to John

With an introduction by Blake Morrison
The Last Weekend: A Novel

The novel opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea.
Two Sisters

Two Sisters
This Poem

This Poem
We are Three Sisters

A literary 'mashup' ingeniously combining Chekhov and the Brontës that throws new light on old masterpieces.
South of the River

This book presents a tale of five people, two rivers, and many Englands, metropolitan and rural, black and white, and is filled with art and life.
Yellow House

Yellow House
Jamie

Jamie
Things My Mother Never Told Me Proof

Things My Mother Never Told Me Proof
Things My Mother Never Told Me (Signed)

Things My Mother Never Told Me (Signed)