Old Men in Love

Men in Love, like The Arabian Nights, is about a storyteller whose stories contain other stories. As in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, 1982 Janine, Poor Things, and The Book of Prefaces, this one has many styles of narrative and location. Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset mingle with Britain under the New Labour Party, viewed from the West End of Glasgow. More than 50% is fact and the rest possible, but must be read to be believed.

Reviews of Old Men in Love

A great writer, perhaps the greatest living in Britain today * Will Self * He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary * Evening Standard *