Seventeen-year-old English boy breaks away from home and his severe, professorial father to become a jazz musician and the companion of a gentle American Negro hornplayer.

Stories:The life guard ; Manhood ; King Caliban ; I love you, Ricky ; Christmas at Rillingham's ; Rafferty ; The valentine generation ; A message from the pig-man ; Down our way ; Goodnight, Old Daisy.

The lost novel, winner of the 1982 Whitbread Prize.

The lost classic novel of a young man's rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.

Set in the area of Staffordshire, England, the novel is an attack on competiveness in life and business. The story centers on the rivalry of two very different men, Robert Lamb and Ned Roper.

The lost classic 'Angry Young Man' novel.

The scene is North Wales, where the people speak their own language. Into this alien country comes an English philologist to acquire fluence Welsh.