Jeff Young's LATCHKEY

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Official Publication Date: 29.9.26

Latchkey's narrator's girlfriend has just left for Venezuela, abandoning him to his bohemian ways. After the umpteenth robbery, and with the arrival of the Fingerprint Man and Pete the Three-Legged Mouse, his life starts to get a lot less lonely, but not an inch saner. Take the protagonists of Withnail & I, make them aspiring poets and transplant them to a squat in 1980s Liverpool inhabited by characters like Boss Eye, Bleachface, and Wyndham Lewis's biographer, soak the whole thing in the sad eternal beauty of the Blues, and you'll begin to have an idea of what this novella is like.

First Printing
September 2026
350 Hand-Numbered Copies
86 pages
178 X 107 mm
250g Covers
120g Stout Black Flyleaves

Printed in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin

"M" Series: 10

ISBN: 978-3-910822-19-1

JEFF YOUNG spent 35 years writing for theatre, radio and TV. He has collaborated with artists, musicians and choreographers, worked in derelict buildings, been thrown out of various countries. His memoirs Ghost Town and the TLS Ackerley Prize winning Wild Twin explore ancestors and architecture, haunted shadows, madness and grief. His Rough Trade Books pamphlet Deliria features an ox and a drunken mallard. As a collagist and maker of assemblages he has exhibited his work in Liverpool galleries. Latchkey continues his exploration of his former life as a hapless and yet lyrical delinquent.