Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the memoir Take Me Home (Granta, 2007), and the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012). Both novels were shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award, and Take Me Home was recently named as one of the Five Best Books on Neuroscience by Prof. Andrew Lees. Jonathan teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk
Synopsis Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award Entertaining Strangers is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince – a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture and ants –...
SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 8SynopsisThese are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath...