Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor is a British novelist and short story writer. He has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize. He lives in Nottingham.
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Fiction | Issue 119
In Winter the Sky
Jon McGregor
‘In winter there’s no danger of falling into the sky / Our bodies anchored to the ground by the weight of the light.’
Fiction | Issue 119
Which Reminded Her, Later
Jon McGregor
‘It's the desperate ones who come up with the best stories.’
Fiction | Issue 83
The First Punch
Jon McGregor
‘I’m on the ground, and he is standing over me. Everything is muffled. I’m aware of the sound of running water somewhere.’
Fiction | Issue 83
What the Sky Sees
Jon McGregor
‘This place that I have grown up in is a landscape of straight lines, a field of vision dominated by the parallel and the perpendicular.’