After working in the British film industry for many years, Özgür Uyanık wrote his debut novel Conception, a dark satire of thecontemporary art world, which was published in 2020. That year he also won the Criminally Good Crime Writing Competition at the Essex Book Festival and was a contributing co-editor for an anthology of essays by under-represented writers. His short stories, essays and book reviews have been published in the UK since 2017.

From Özgür Uyanık, novelist and film director, comes a debut collection of audacious, darkly wry and compassionate short stories. Driven by universal themes of desire, mortality, loss and yearning, each story evokes both the melancholy and the hope inherent in all stages of life, from childhood through to maturity.Artists, writers, lovers, killers: all types of men walk these pages and find love or lose love in the European cities of Cardiff, İstanbul, London, Paris, Odessa and Lisbon. All seeking to find a way to belong in the world.Men Alone is a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many – often confounding – permutations of modern masculinity.