Matthew Yorke (born 24 November 1958) is a British novelist and editor. Yorke is the son of novelist

Emma Tennant Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a femi ...

and Sebastian Yorke, son of

Henry Green Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 – 13 December 1973), an English writer best remembered for the novels ''Party Going'', ''Living (novel), Living,'' and ''Loving (novel), Loving''. He published a total of n ...

. His novels include: ''The March Fence'' (Penguin, 1988), winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. ''Chancing It'' (Waywiser Press, 2005), Book of the Year Nominations: The Scotsman, The Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement. ''Pictures of Lily'' (Corsair, 2010), shortlisted for Not the Booker Prize. ''Fish Tale'' (Cogito, 2022). He has also edited ''Surviving: The Uncollected Works of Henry Green'' (his grandfather, whose real name was Henry Yorke).

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Matthew Yorke at Waywiser Press

Synopsis of ''Pictures of Lily'' at Constable & Robinson
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