Conventional Weapons
12 October 2017Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
Brittle, effeminate and perennially untalented, Nigel Tuffnell-Greene has little in common with his high-achieving and ultra-masculine elder brother, Geoffrey, whom he worships and detests – hating him with a passion almost indistinguishable from love.
In Conventional Weapons the reader is introduced to a stratum of English middle-class society before and after World War II as the divergent paths of the...
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12 October 2017304 pages
9781509855889Imprint: Bello
Reviews
He is subtle as the devilJohn Betjeman
A civilised and witty writer who seems to me, in his analytical approach to society, to have much in common with Anthony PowellEric Keown, Punch
Art exploited as a mere pretext: that is the underlying theme of Conventional Weapons. I can think of no other novelist who has dealt with the subject so ruthlessly, with such skill and controlled imagination . . . Mr Brooke has ploughed his English corner of The Waste Land between the two world wars with a dexterity that compels our harrowed admirationHarold Acton, The London Magazine
