On Memoir

Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and journalist. His non-fiction books include And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize and the Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award, As If (1997), about the murder of the toddler James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993, and a memoir of his mother, Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002). His poetry includes the collections Dark Glasses (1984), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and Shingle Street (2015) He is a regular literary critic for the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

‘Blake Morrison is without equal’ HOWARD JACOBSON‘Morrison has a startling gift' LITERARY REVIEW‘A writer of undoubted skill’ NEW STATESMAN‘Few writers can claim to have affected the literary landscape like Blake Morrison’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘Morrison writes with a reckless respect for the truth’ GUARDIAN