This is a book about a boy and his grandpa, life and death, sex and hate, dogs meat and cancer. It is also about pornography, enemas, Morse codes, puberty, secrets, God and loathing. And it is about love.

Robinsons first novel is well worth a read. It is a strong book surprisingly unsettling, touching and darkly comic. Throughout the book we follow Thomas Penman as he emerges into adolescence, experiences love for the first time and deals with many more problems he encounters along the way.

It really doesn't matter that there is no plot so to speak of as the novel has such freshness and prose. A great book well worth reading. www.bloomsbury.com

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a story of moral corruption. Not shocking by the standards of the late twentieth century, on publication it caused outrage and controversy.

The novel proved offensive as it failed to 'show an single angle of good or holy impulse in the human nature'. Moral corruption is rife in the book as the young Dorian Grays soul is gradually tainted and corrupted.

Beautifully written focusing on the aesthetic nature of things the book is a work of art. Crafted in brilliant prose it is of lasting importance. It exhibits all of Wildes brilliance in a single work of art.