Jon Mcgregor: 10 books

Following the success of his novel Reservoir 13 (an ABA Indie Next List Pick, Amazon Best Book of the Year, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the recipient of rave reviews by critics like James Wood in The New Yorker), The Reservoir Tapes returns to the novel's setting in an English village...

The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor. From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after...

*«Un libro meraviglioso. Uno scrittore eccezionale, unico.» * Paula Hawkins «Bacino 13 è formidabile: per la struttura, l'intreccio e l'abilità con cui l'autore fa vivere i personaggi... È come guardare più di un decennio di vita da un treno in lento movimento.» Roddy Doyle «Un...

Featuring: M.J. Hyland, Alison MacLeod, Jon McGregor, K.J. Orr and S.W. Wilson. ‘We are living through a golden moment in the history of the short story,’ wrote The Guardian recently, and the annual BBC National Short Story Award is both a testament to this, and one of the reasons...

Featuring: David Constantine, Aminatta Forna, Sarah Hall, Jon McGregor and Helen Oyeyemi. The BBC National Short story Award is one of the world's largest awards for a single short story. All five shortlisted stories, including the winner, are published here side by side. The Award is...

In this potent examination of family and memory, Jon McGregor charts one man's voyage of self-discovery. Like Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, So Many Ways to Begin is rich in the intimate details that shape a life, the subtle strain that defines human relationships, and the personal history...

C’era ancora la guerra il giorno in cui Mary prese la nave per l’Inghilterra. Sulla nave si sistemò in un cantuccio, i due fratelli uno di fronte all’altro, lei con la testa poggiata sulla spalla del padre, la guancia sul cappotto che sapeva di terra e fumo di torba e dell’aria fredda e pulita...

In this Booker Prize–nominated “dream of a novel,” ordinary middle-class lives converge and collide one summer day in England (The Times). In delicate, intricately observed close-up, this novel makes us privy to the private lives of residents of a quiet street over the course of a single...

Winner of the Costa Novel Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kirkus, and Los Angeles Review Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers...

Het is midden in de winter. Een tienermeisje wordt vermist in de heuvels in het hart van Engeland. De dorpsbewoners, die zijn opgeroepen om deel te nemen aan de zoektocht, waaieren uit over de heide. De politie zet wegversperringen neer en een groep verslaggevers treedt het gewoonlijk zo stille dorp...