Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006 Nominated for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Over 160,000 copies of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things sold Jon McGregor was shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category in the 2004 British Book Awards and is winner of the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize

'McGregor's careful prose is sharpened by anticipation and expectation' - Observer 'An homage to ordinary people and ordinary things, to the parts of our lives that often go unspoken ... moving and honest' - The Times 'McGregor's meticulous syntax melts into a hot flood of words ... This is a decorous novel that rises on occasion to ardour ... An intimate tale with penetrating things to say about the wider history of twentieth-century Britain' - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times 'This is a novel of character and atmosphere ... The relationship between David and Eleanor from youth to age, imperfect, deeply loving, underpins the whole ... a book about the search for greater meaning in the strange dance of chance' - Carol Birch, Independent

Jon McGregor is the author of the critically acclaimed If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, and winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham. This is his second novel.