This vivid and strikingly witty novel examines the contradictions between the public face and the private experience. Nephew to the prime minister of England, eighteen-year-old Bert tries to make sense of the grown-up world around him, a colorful crowd of television personalities, politicians, yo...
Aged twenty, and with no war experience, Nicholas Mosley found himself in charge of a platoon of men positioned along the Italian front during the Second World War. With his father in prison on charges of treason, he had enlisted primarily in an effort to improve his family image. But the war lef...
In his recent novels--including his award-winning Hopeful Monsters--Nicholas Mosley has investigated the patterns that govern our mental and emotional lives and the possibilities that we have for change, and nowhere has he explored such themes with greater concentration than in Catastrophe Practi...
Encompasses all the worst aspects of Mosley’s writing. Judith is a female character with the voice of an upper-class Cambridge philosophy professor who speaks (and thinks) in quasi-profound and lyrical phrases—representing reality is not Mosley’s agenda, however this narrative voice is beyond lud...
I thought I could now see more clearly his reasons for doing so, though these might or might not be a good reason for wishing that it might be published now. The publisher was Rupert Hart-Davis, and his reader David Garnett, who had written to me— I have read A Garden of Trees with interest and d...
In the streets an impression of being at a depth continued: the walls of high apartment buildings rose like rock-faces on either side; the lorries and cars that went past festooned with men with rifles were like lobsters or crabs with heavy claws. It was necessary to get past these to climb up th...