'I wanted to be "a novelist" in a way I never wanted to be "a poet",' Larkin confided in 1982. It has long been known that his two published novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), tell only part of the story of this thwarted ambition. Drawing on the papers deposited after his death in the Brynmor Jones Library, Hull, this volume collects together virtually all his remaining unpublished fiction. The book opens with works written under the...