The novelist and critic Paul Bailey talks about a writer he greatly admires, Arthur Morri son (1863-1945), who produced his most enduring work within the short space of eight years, when he was in his 30s - Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago, and The Hole in the Wall.
Though Morrison lived another 40 years, he wrote little else, preferring to devote himself to the great passion of his later life, Japanese art. His early novels and stories provide one of the most vivid and authentic accounts of life in the East End of London at the turn of the century. Reader JOHN ROWE