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Writer Jess Richards recently shared in The Independent why her Book of a Lifetime is one of Jon McGregor’s. Find out more here.
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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
— published 2002 — 21 editions |
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So Many Ways to Begin
— published 2006 — 10 editions |
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Even the Dogs
— published 2010 — 14 editions |
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This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
— published 2012 — 4 editions |
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If It Keeps on Raining
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One for the Trouble
by Irvine Welsh, William Boyd, Hari Kunzru — published 2011 — 3 editions |
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2011
by M.J. Hyland, Alison MacLeod, Jon McGregor — published 2011 — 2 editions |
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5 Uneasy Pieces
by Penny J Cotton, Nick Penrake, Hilaire — published 1998 |
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“You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“If you listen, you can hear it.
The city, it sings.
If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house.
It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you.
It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
The city, it sings.
If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house.
It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you.
It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
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