If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Jon McGregor is the author of five novels and two story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. 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.

'My book of the year. A magical, spellbinding, profound novel' Maggie O'Farrell, 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 won't 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 ... McGregor's 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 ... McGregor's 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