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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 padlock
Fiction | Issue 119 padlock

Clough

Jon McGregor

‘She probably thinks this is all a game. There’s time yet.’

In Conversation | Issue 119
In Conversation | Issue 119

Jon McGregor | Podcast

Jon McGregor & Ted Hodgkinson

Jon McGregor on reworking his first published story from the female perspective, his enduring fascination with Lincolnshire and his new short story collection, This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You.

Fiction | Issue 119
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.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock

Portrait of My Father

Jon McGregor

‘He must have taken thousands of services in that time, but this still feels like the holiest thing he’s ever done.‘

Fiction | Issue 104 padlock
Fiction | Issue 104 padlock

Which Reminded Her, Later

Jon McGregor

‘It's the desperate ones who come up with the best stories.’

Fiction | Issue 83 padlock
Fiction | Issue 83 padlock

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
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.’

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