The Cloud of Dust

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 153. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; burgundy endpapers. Jacket illustration by Michelle Thompson.

Author's first book. A semi-autobiographical novel, based on the affair between the BBC newsreader Anna Ford and the late cartoonist and magazine journalist, Marc Boxer, told in epistolary form by his son, Charlie.

"A miracle of poetic compression... it unfolds the history of a consuming, unconsummated love. Not a false note in it. A remarkable achievement." –George Melly, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph