Box Hill

On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain's most accomplished writers. 

 Adam Mars-Jones' first collection of stories,  Lantern Lecture , won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982, and he appeared on  Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel,  The Waters of Thirst , was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by  Pilcrow  (2008) and  Cedilla  (2011), which form the first two parts of a semiinfinite novel series. His essay  Noriko Smiling  (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu's  Late Spring . His memoir  Kid Gloves  was published by Particular Books in 2015. He writes book reviews for the  LRB  and film reviews for the  TLS.