Rick Gekoski

• Nov-2022
• / Literary

Released from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience exacerbated, Dr James Darke self-isolates. But on his return he understands that he is now a displaced person, lost in a...

• Feb-2022
• / General Fiction

'Its snarky hero is a joy', a Times and Sunday Times Novel of the Year, 2020 'Clever, witty and perceptive . . . Gekoski writes movingly about love, loss and grief, while handling the difficult issue of assisted dying with considerable balance and fi...

• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction

It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans â€" Ben, Addie and their two children â€" are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life in Long Island ...

• Feb-2017
• / General Fiction

This critically acclaimed debut novel offers "an original and bleakly funny portrait of grief" in the singular mind and solitary life of its protagonist (The Economist).   Shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize and The Author's Club Best F...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction

A first edition of Ulysses sold for 460,000 in auction at Christie's in 2002. The price might have upset the union chief, convicted gangster, and major-league James Joyce book collector Dennis Silverman, who had sold his copy, signed and inscribed by...