Matthew Crow

• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction

Let me tell you a story, about a man I knew, and a man I know... Mr Baxter is ninety-four years old when he falls down his staircase and grudgingly finds himself resident at Melrose Gardens Retirement Home. Baxter is many things - raconteur, ret...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction

A small town. A missing schoolgirl. A terrible secret. And one girl's fight to survive. Sixteen-year-old Claudette Flint is coming home from hospital after an escalating depression left her unable to cope. She may seem unchanged on the outside; b...

• Mar-2015
• / Contemporary Romance

Francis is determined to forge his own way in school and life despite his loony, awkward, broken family...and noticeable lack of friends. Then he is diagnosed with leukemia. It wasn’t part of his strategy, but there are moments when he can see the ...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction

Francis Wootton's first memory is of Kurt Cobain's death and there have since been other hardships much closer to home. At fifteen, he knows all about loss and rejection, and if he's honest, Francis- would-be poet, possible intellectual - feels he...

• Apr-2012
• / Literary

Nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize, a novel of long-distance love. "There is an assured precision to Crow's observations that cannot be learned" (Jonathan Trigell, award-winning author of Boy A).   "Like you I've been feeling forlorn of...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction

"Authentic and poetic, lyrical and believable . . . a raw, rip-roaring depiction of life" from the author of In Bloom and Another Place (Mark Piggott, author of the Forever Avalon series).   A lawless land of violence and deprivation...