There’s an in-depth review of Jott by Daniel Davis Wood at Splice —
— and also an interview, in which we invent the genre of Beckettpunk.
Splice review and interview
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Category Archives: Jott
Starting a book among Beckett’s letters
I’ve written a piece for the LRB blog about tracing a family connection in Samuel Beckett’s letters, and how that became the seed for a story…
Jott has launched!
Interview in quotes
I’ve done a short interview with the novelist Ruadh Butler. Instead of questions, Ruadh uses quotations from well-known writers — in my case leading to ramblings about David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Flannery O’Connor, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf, among others…
Introducing Jott
Here’s two minutes and forty-one seconds of me telling you what Jott is about…
Video by James Carney of Unseen Things.
New novel in June 2018
My new book Jott will be published by John Murray on 16th June 2018.
In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux.
Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood by his brilliant, troubled friend. But after years of playing the unassuming companion, he is learning that loyalty has its costs: that old friendship may thwart new love, and perhaps even blur distinctions between the sane and the mad…
Jott is a story about friendship, madness and modernism from the author of Communion Town.
