Jasper Rees

Remembering David Storey, giant of postwar English culture

The writer's newly published posthumous memoir is perhaps his most remarkable and gripping work

‘How could I paint a picture or write a poem while our father was hacking at a coalface?’: David Storey with his beloved father Frank, in a photograph taken by Lindsay Anderson, 1961. Credit: courtesy of the Storey family
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