If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

My book of the year. A magical, spellbinding, profound novel Maggie OFarrell, Daily Telegraph A sensationally accomplished debut a convincing and moving vision of contemporary Britain Sunday Times This is a novel of wonders Observer This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society An assured debut The Times This is an ordinary world, shabby and melancholy, but McGregor describes it with mesmeric power you wont read anything much more poignant than this Daily Telegraph This is ecstatic writing, suffused with delight both at the things evoked and at the language that can recreate them McGregors conviction will carry them a long way TLS A dream of a novel It is not every novelist who has the gift, as Jon McGregor does, of reminding his readers of that heaven in a wild flower, that infinity in a grain of sand The Times McGregor's publishers must be openly rejoicing If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is the work of a burning new talent Daily Mail McGregor is an exemplary archivist of the humdrum written by someone who detects so passionately the remarkable in the everyday Spectator Extraordinary McGregors triumphant prose-poem of ordinariness has a very contemporary kind of spirituality about it Sunday Times Wonderful Full of gentle wonder and blinding insight He has annotated the miracle of life Glasgow Herald

Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham. Twitter: @jon_mcgregor Website: www.jonmcgregor.com