Böcker av Jocelyn Brooke

A searing portrait of the inter-war English middle-class by the exceptional writer and naturalist Jocelyn Brooke

A forgotten classic of gay, post-war literature

A searing portrait of doomed adolescent angst

A tour de force of autobiographical fiction by one of the most fascinating writers of the mid-twentieth century

A haunting classic of gay literature

The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece - a blend of botany, memoir and satire; the story of Jocelyn Brooke's obsession with one flower - the Orchis Militaris, the military orchid.

A novel that is set in the Kentish countryside.

A chance meeting in Valetta years after the Second World War brings back an unwelcome childhood memory, but the narrator of the last novel cannot forget the man he has met - Geoffrey Greene, and the family he belonged to. Despite his dislike for the family, he finds himself drawn into the world of the Greenes, just as he was in his youth.

"The Dog at Clambercrown".

Reynard Langrish befriends a young army officer who talks of a 'state of emergency'. Reynard agrees to undertake military training with him, but as he becomes more deeply involved he is drawn into a struggle with mysterious and irrational forces which are to threaten his sanity.