Shortlisted For The Rathbones Folio Prize 2020two Timely Novellas Exploring Male Sexual Violence, Power And Corruptionvictory Makes A Convincing Case For James Lasdun As One Of The Most Incisive Investigators Of The Human Heart Writing In English Today An Instant Masterpiece Johanna Thomas-corr, Observerlove And Hate, Desire And Guilt, Friendship And Betrayal These Are The Coordinates That Drive James Lasduns Two Intensely Gripping, Darkly Comic Novellas Of Men And Women Caught Between Their Irrational Passions And The Urge For Control. In Feathered Glory The Seemingly Happy Marriage Of A School Principal And His Artist Wife Reveals Dangerous Fault-lines As An Old Lover Reappears In The Husbands Life. The Past Also Haunts The Present In Afternoon Of A Faun, Where An Accusation Of Historic Sexual Assault Plunges Marco Rosedale, An English Journalist In New York, Into A Series Of Deepening Crises.