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Jon McGregor

‘You’re trying to do this amazing thing…’

Successful novelist Jon McGregor had his first book longlisted for the Booker Prize, but that doesn’t mean he found writing it easy:

‘Writing novels is a difficult process… There’s this sense that you’re trying to do this amazing thing that you dreamt up one day, and you’re never quite getting there’ – Jon McGregor

Watch the video interview with Jon McGregor to find out why:

  • He didn’t originally want to be a writer
  • The Booker Prize nomination changed everything
  • His prose has an almost poetic quality
  • PLUS you’ll hear his advice for new writers looking for a publishing deal!

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable ThingsJon McGregor was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham.

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things found him a place as the youngest contender and the only first novelist on the 2002 Booker Prize longlist.

It was selected by Waterstone’s as one of their top 100 books of the last 25 years.

So Many Ways to BeginJon McGregor’s second novel, So Many Ways to Begin was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

His new novel Even the Dogs is published by Bloomsbury in February 2010.

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