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Disarranged — First Edition Paperback now available

We are pleased to announce the publication of Disarranged by John Roman Baker.

This first edition volume presents three previously unpublished works that examine the darker edges of desire and human behaviour:

Carved — A gothic narrative set on the North Yorkshire Moors in which the consequences of one man’s revenge will shape the lives of two others.

Disarranged — A detective story involving twin brothers that moves from investigation into absurdity, obsession, and violence.

The Dot — A darkly comic account of a police interrogation that pushes its subject towards the limits of reason.

Disarranged forms part of The Drift of Time series and continues John Roman Baker’s exploration of identity, power, and the consequences of human action.

Paperback (First Edition)
Price: £12.99 / €13 / $12.99
ISBN: 978‑1‑899713‑45‑5

Available to order at independent bookstores worldwide or from: Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk

Kindle editions of Carved and Disarranged will be released later in 2026.

Men in their Passions - Now published

John Roman Baker’s latest novel, Men in their Passions, is now available in paperback and Kindle editions.

Spare, elegiac, and quietly provocative, the novel traces the emotional aftermath of desire through a series of male relationships—each brief, each flawed, each formative.

Jean-Paul moves from the anonymous rooms of Paris to England, and then to Italy. The men he encounters are passionate, self-destructive, and haunted—like himself—by pasts that cannot be undone.

Written with understated lyricism and psychological precision, Men in their Passions is a mosaic of intimate dislocations: a quiet study of longing, resilience, and the lives we almost lived.

This is the newest addition to The Drift of Time, a literary series of standalone novels exploring masculinity, memory, and emotional drift across place and era.

Men in their Passions by John Roman Baker
Part of The Drift in Time literary series.

Published by Wilkinson House, August 2025.
ISBN 978-1-899713-74-5 (Trade Paperback)

Announcing The Drift of Time — A Literary Series by John Roman Baker

Wilkinson House is pleased to announce the formulation of a new book series:

The Drift of Time — A Literary Series by John Roman Baker

This thematic collection brings together John Roman Baker's standalone novels—each distinct in style and setting, yet united by emotional resonance, tone, and thematic preoccupations

Desire, obsession, madness, memory, and time drift through these works, creating echoes across lives, landscapes, and time.

These are not sequels, but echoes. Each story stands alone, yet drifts toward the others in tone, spirit, and silence.

The series currently includes the following titles: No Fixed Ground, The Paris Syndrome, The Vicious Age, and 2020.

A new title—Men in their Passions—is scheduled for release on 25 August and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Further details will be shared here on launch day.

Greg has arrived at the Station!

The long-awaited seventh book in the Nick & Greg series is now available to order and will be released for Kindle and in Paperback on November 21st, 2024.

The Nick & Greg series of books stands out in gay fiction. It chronicles the lives of two lovers, Nick and Greg, and their close friends, from their teenage encounters in the 1950s through decades of social and sexual revolutions, up to the present day.

Greg at the Station brings the series (almost) up to the present day. Greg has returned to Paris. It's 2019, and an unexpected incident at the Gare du Nord sends him on a rollercoaster journey through dreams and memory. As he navigates the streets and Metro stations of the city, Greg must relive and decipher past events and relationships with all their love, danger, and vibrancy, while trying to make sense of his complex present reality.

Greg at the Station can be read independently or in sequence with the rest of the series.

Author John Roman Baker's work on the novel was interrupted by several significant events, resulting in a longer-than-expected delay for fans eager to read this new release.

He explains, "The book was largely complete before I had even started the preceding parts: Love & Cowardice and Nick's Fugue. The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019 acted as a catalyst for its structure, but then other events had an impact. Brexit and the Covid lockdowns radically altered my perspectives and led to me writing 2020 and several other works before I was finally able to return to Greg at the Station. So, it has taken longer than expected, but I hope readers will find it has been worth the wait."

Greg at the Station features arguably some of the finest writing in the series and brings the sequence almost up to date. A further installment, provisionally titled Karel & the Chelsea Lighthouse Café, has been announced for future publication.

Publication Data

Greg at the Station by John Roman Baker

Publication date: 21 November 2024

ISBN: 978-1-899713-67-7 (Paperback)

Publisher: Wilkinson House Ltd, London

Under Construction

Wilkinson House is a publisher of gay fiction founded in 2010 and based in England.

We have published works by Robin Newbold, A.D. Pritchard, Itamar SN and our resident author John Roman Baker.

Information about our current and past publications will appear here shortly.

Brighton Darkness is a collection of 17 stories that mostly relate to the city of Brighton & Hove: a place of dreams for young and old that must somehow always be returned to.

The stories span the decades from the 1950s to the present day and explore the many quirks and contradictions that define the city’s unique character.

Two boys in the 1950s experience a desire that begins in St Ann’s Well Gardens and continues in the back row of the Astoria cinema. An ex-hustler meets a famous male movie star, long since thought to be dead. A birthday party doesn’t quite turn out as planned, but has its own unexpected present of truth. A woman looks back upon her past in Regency Square, which is now almost beyond recognition to her. There is an encounter in the city between two Russians who try to come to terms with the tragic death of a young man they both loved. And snow falls in the city, hiding the unseen darkness beneath.

Gay life in the city runs as a theme through many of the stories, while the author’s experiences of other cities, Amsterdam, Paris and New York add a global context to the book. Another recurrent theme is that of return. The author himself recently returned to the city after 17 years living and working in the Netherlands.

About the author
John Roman Baker is a British poet, playwright and novelist who has lived and written mainly in Paris, Amsterdam and Brighton.

About this edition
This is the printed Paperback edition of BRIGHTON DARKNESS.

The following digital editions of this book will be available from August 2015
Kindle edition for Kindle devices.
EPUB edition for other ebook reading devices (iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Android etc).