Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's new novel is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple, and the scene is set for sunlit relaxation. But dangerous tensions quickly emerge. In taut, lucid prose, with flashes of wit and moments of troubling uncertainty, Blake Morrison perfectly conveys the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer. Ominous revelations from Ian's past slowly intrude. And his rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect a seemingly forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible consequences. "The Last Weekend" is a deftly crafted page-turner, where little can be taken for granted and nothing is quite as it seems. It offers a dark, haunting tale of friendship, sexual passion and jealousy - and confirms Blake Morrison's reputation as one of Britain's most talented writers.

Blake Morrison齣生於約剋郡小鎮Skipton，曾就讀於諾丁漢大學、麥剋瑪斯特大學和倫敦大學學院。曾為《泰晤士報文學增刊》工作，後同時被《觀察傢報》和《星期日獨立報》聘為文學編輯，並於1995年辭職成為全職作傢。

作為皇傢文學學會會員、前任詩文書社社長和PEN副會長，Blake著有小說、詩歌、新聞、書評和詩集，亦曾寫過話劇。他最有名的作品當數《And When Did You Last See Your Father》和《Things My Mother Never Told Me》兩部分彆著述其父母的迴憶錄。

自2003年，Blake擔任瞭金匠學院創新與生活寫作教授。他與妻子和三個孩子住在南倫敦。