Max Porter Books in Order

After their mother’s sudden death, two boys and their grieving father receive an unexpected visitor: Crow. Part tormentor and part protector, the creature settles into their London home and insists on staying until the family no longer needs him.

A boy named Lanny lives with his parents in an English village whose past remains close to the present. In the woods, the ancient Dead Papa Toothwort wakes and listens to the community, drawing special attention to the child.

As Francis Bacon lies dying in Madrid, this short work imagines the final movements of his mind. Seven written pictures bring memory, art and bodily decline together in an experimental portrait of a painter approaching death.

A troubled teenage boy walks into the night, accompanied by memories and the voices of those he has hurt or who want to help him. Over a few hours, guilt and imagination reveal his struggle to feel less alone.