The Hand-Reared BoyLonglisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, The Hand Reared Boy was the first literary novel to honestly, and explicitly, explore the sexual awakening of a young man. Quite shocking when first published in 1970, it is now considered a classic. It is the first book in the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy. Brian says: Young Horatio Stubbs suffers the pangs of adolescence, but is weaned from the pleasures of masturbation by the delights offered by his schools

Besides which

This thriller is shocking

So you bide your time and wait

Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general

After a traumatic birth

Lucien has finally managed to break free

Page-turning and ambitious

loss and what our future might hold

meets James Churchill

and Jas who tells us of his journey with these three

descendent of the House of Valens whose motto so aptly was "Quit you like men"

Elin's unease grows