Intimacy -- Midnight All Day -- Strangers When We Meet -- Four Blue Chairs -- That Was Then -- Girl -- Sucking Stones -- A Meeting, at Last -- Midnight All Day -- The Umbrella -- Morning in the Bowl of Night -- The Penis.

Jay, the narrator of Intimacy, tells his story on the night he is preparing to leave his lover, Susan, and their two boys. Stripping away all posturing and self-justification, Hanif Kureishi explores the fears and desires that drive a man to leave a woman. Midnight All Day is an astonishing, darkly comic collection of new stories, in which Kureishi confirms his reputation as one of our foremost chroniclers of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters are familiar in the cultural landscape of the nineties: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new.