'The Story of a Childhood', it traces the life of a boy called Randal Thane between the ages of six and fourteen, concentrating particularly upon his passionate obsession with an older boy called Felton. There followed a long silence—Green always found writing difficult—which was broken in 1972 with the appearance of a volume titled The Power of Sergeant Streater. Published as a novel, it is in fact three interrelated novellas each illustrating what Frank Tuohy identified as Green’s principal theme: ‘the relationship of an older man with a younger, of a different class or race’. Green spent the rest of his life working on a related volume of short stories 'on the theme of the failure of Love' and set in Ceylon and Morocco, where he went on holiday in 1975. Diagnosed with lung cancer, he committed suicide in 1977. The five stories he had completed were published alongside extracts from his other books and the reminiscences of his friends in a memorial volume titled A Skilled Hand, edited by his sister-in-law Chloë Green and the publisher A. D. Maclean. Works Land Without Heroes (stories) (1948) First View (edited) (1950) In the Making (1952) The Power of Sergeant Streater (1972) A Skilled Hand (1980) References British short story writers People of British Ceylon 1977 deaths 1911 births British gay writers British male short story writers 1977 suicides 20th-century LGBT people