The Wrong Set
Selected Stories (Faber Editions)
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Pub Date Jan 12 2027 | Archive Date Nov 26 2026
Faber & Faber | Faber & Faber Fiction
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Description
Illicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her Communist nephew. Drunken feuds at the seedy South Kensington Hotel's staff dance. The eccentric spinsters tempting a little boy to grotesque acts.
Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet oddly tender eye across mid-century England. Jitterbugging, espresso bars, spivs, Angry Young Men, teddy boys, satanic masses in village living rooms: all of life is here in these beloved stories. Savage in their deadly anatomy of social class yet compassionate in their portrayal of misfit outsiders, these are mini Austenesque novels-of-(bad)-manners, seething with high-octane dialogue, baroque humour and macabre secrets.
Introduced by Margaret Drabble
Advance Praise
"It takes a special kind of talent to build an entire career on the back of your own hysteria... Wilson is like an agent, a brilliant snooper in some branch of intelligence, picking up his material from the scattered refugees of moral disorder." —Guardian
"It is rather as though a man of acute sensibility felt left out of the human party, and was surveying it, half-enviously, half-contemptuously, from the corner of the room, determined to show that this party is pretty horrifying after all." —Sunday Times
"The great imaginative neurologist of our generation." —New Statesman
"A thing to rejoice over." —Evelyn Waugh
"One of the few things I would rather run a mile than do is have an Angus Wilson character over for the evening." —Martin Ami
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780571404766 |
| PRICE | CA$22.50 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 160 |