Guarded by dragons

RICK’S NEW Book, published July 08, 2021. ‘Rick Gekoski’s encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them’ Ian Rankin Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the...

2021 Appearances and events

Belinda and I are blessedly in New Zealand for the next months, or until there is a compelling reason to return to the UK. There are real live literary festivals and events here! I will be appearing as follows: 8th of July PUBLICATION DAY Guarded by Dragons. 17th of...

A Long Island Story

Rick Gekoski’s follow up to his critically acclaimed debut, Darke, is a novel about 1950s America, a marriage in crisis, and a family falling apart at the seams. It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children...
Conrad: The moral world of the novelist

Conrad: The moral world of the novelist

Closely based on my Oxford D Phil, 1972. I don’t believe in the brandishing of keys to writers – Conrad is no more a lock or door than a casket. The central opposition or tension in Conrad is that between his ‘vision of personal autonomy’ and his ‘vision of social...
Staying Up

Staying Up

I am the only football fan who has written a book containing an inside account of a year in the life of a Premiership team. OK, it was only Coventry City, but the season was 1997/1998, and we finished solidly in the middle of the league, and got to the quarterfinals...