After a gripping opening, Jon McGregor’s novel turns into a meditation on language and caregiving. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney, Bernard MacLaverty and Jon McGregor are among the 10 writers shortlisted for the €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late author Helen Dunmore is shortlisted for a Costa Award along with Jon McGregor, Kamila Shamsie and Sarah Winman with almost half of the titles coming from independent publishers in a strong year for women writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barker beats novels by Will Self and Jon McGregor to take home the £10,000 literary prize for her narrative-bending vision of a dystopian futureNicola Barker’s H(a)ppy has won this year’s Goldsmiths prize for “fiction at its most novel”, praised by judges as a work of “vaulting ambition”.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Heinemann has landed two titles on the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist, with Will Self and Jon McGregor both nominated for the £10,000 award. The Cornerstone imprint has H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker and A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume in the running alongside contenders from independent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary novelist Jon McGregor explains how his fifth novel in an impressive and lauded oeuvre, his first for Fourth estate, interrogates the extraordinary within the everyday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Mon, 12/09/2011 - 08:45 Stories from Jon McGregor and M J Hyland have been shortlisted for the sixth BBC National Short Story Award, announced on Friday evening (9th September) on BBC Radio 4's "Front Row". read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 19:30 Stories from Jon McGregor and M J Hyland have been shortlisted for the sixth BBC National Short Story Award, announced this evening (9th September) on BBC Radios Front Row. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]