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.