Gerard Woodward

• Nov-1994
• / General Fiction
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With the publication of his first book, HOUSEHOLDER, Gerard Woodward emerged as one of the most talented and unusual new poets of the 1990s. In his forthcoming collection AFTER THE DEAFENING, Woodward's powerful imagination, and the details of ev...

• Aug-2002
• / General Fiction
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Little did Aldous Jones know when he careened over his bicycle handlebars back in 1955, landing next to farmer Evans s field, that it would turn into the idyllic start to a series of camping holidays in that same field. With Gerard Woodward s deadpan...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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"A loving and harrowing account of the havoc alcohol can wreak on a family." ―Sarah Lyall, New York Times

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
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In this successor to his Man Booker Prize finalist, Gerard Woodward slyly pits defiant Aldous Jones against the hazards of aging. Left with an empty house after the death of his wife, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his c...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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Most of these vivid and unsettling stories are rooted in apparently everyday lives and situations, but suddenly become surreal or disturbing. Reading them feels as though you’re walking along in the real world and suddenly you step off an edge into...

• Oct-2011
• / Women's Fiction
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With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother; working at the local gelatin factory -- to help the war effort -- and generally doing just about as well as could be ...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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In "Island to Island", his third collection of poetry for Chatto, Gerard Woodward ventures into more hostile, less familiar territory. An Arabian desert, the moon, thinly-populated archipelagos are all visited in what emerges as an investigation into...

• May-2015
• / Historical
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Toward the end of the World War II, young British artist Kenneth Brill is arrested for painting landscapes near Heathrow Village; the authorities suspect his paintings contain coded information about the new military airfield that is being built. Bri...

• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize- and Whitbread Prize-shortlisted author.Many of Legoland''s fifteen stories begin with Woodward''s sharp and unflinching eye alighting upon an apparently everyday detail or situation, but...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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'Hugely enjoyable, a unique love story that’s both witty and poignant.' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible FuriesArnold Proctor’s quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and one of ...

• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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