Jon McGregor
British novelist whose debut If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things won the Betty Trask Prize. Reservoir 13 is a formally daring novel that refuses conventional narrative resolution. He is one of the most formally inventive British novelists of his generation.
Works
- If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable ThingsSingle day in city reveals interconnected lives touched by a construction accident
- Even the DogsHomeless men form family in the streets while neglected by society
- So Many Ways to BeginInterconnected stories of characters learning to live after personal loss
- Reservoir 13Village marked by the disappearance of a child; time and memory examined
- Lean Fall StandThree people navigate connection and distance through language and silence