Ian Gregson: 2 books

Set in Phnom Penh in 1962, amongst the diplomatic community with its tensions, friendships, intrigues and affairs and against the background of the Cold War and Cuban missile, The Crocodile Princess takes historical figures, from Prince Sihanouk to Peter Cook, constructing an alternative history in...

Set in 1969 on a council estate in north Manchester this thriller come dark satire centres on Dennis’s adolescent travails, including his longings for both Helen and a teenager, Lorraine Lever); on what he hears through the wall and the puzzle of who commits the central murder.