Empty Grandstand, The February 2022 A novel of searing insight

A novel of searing insight and lyrical beauty

and the American soul

The heart-stopping new historical romantic adventure from the bestselling author of The Orphans

and palazzos

but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines

Empty Grandstand, The February 2022 A novel of searing insightThe wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play. Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered a field of play that rolled out, green with promise,