Jon McGregor Biography

Jon McGregor started writing seriously during his final year at University contributing a series entitled 'Cinema 100' to the anthology Five Uneasy Pieces (Pulp Faction). He left Bradford for Sheffield then Nottingham taking a series of shift-jobs to support his writing and wrote his first novel If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002) in Nottingham while living on a narrowboat. His novel has received much press attention as he was the youngest contender and only first novelist on the longlist for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The novel is set on an unnamed inner-city street on 'the last day of summer' and tells two parallel stories: one of the residents on the street on that day ending in tragedy; one set a year later telling of a former resident's attempts to unravel the facts of the tragedy. The Sunday Times named it a '

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