Wrote For Luck

A new collection from one of the UK’s most celebrated biographers, novelists and critics - and, as these stories show, a quite brilliant literary artist.

Wrote For Luck ranges from North Norfolk to Chicago, from sordid old antique dealers to glamorous young writers, from glorious local gossips to frustrated academics. These stories abound with gleeful absurdity, waspish humour, and awkward, exquisitely English conversations. But they are also rich in melancholy and the heady sadness of people struggling to find a place in the world. Some are fascinatingly strange; others are uncomfortably familiar. Some are simply hilarious - and all are touchingly human.