London Book Award Nomination Jon McGregor: 'The prose is picked clean, pellucid. Even a young woman’s near-death experience, when a sugar beet smashes through her car windscreen, holds a purposeful, uncanny beauty entirely of that moment...'

The Telegraph: “The prose is picked clean, pellucid. Even a young woman’s near-death experience, when a sugar beet smashes through her car windscreen, holds a purposeful, uncanny beauty entirely of that moment... McGregor’s confidence in his versatility can mean that some pieces read less as story, more exercise in the limitations of the form, but the overall sensibility, the detachment and empathy, remain intact: ‘It’s a very beautiful world. It’s a shame, what will happen.’”

The Guardian are similarly excited by Jon’s ominous collection: “Sharp, dark and hugely entertaining, this collection establishes McGregor as one of the most exciting voices in short fiction”

This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You is McGregor’s first collection of short stories. He has already published three books prior to this collection, with the similarly lengthy title If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things winning the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003. His first two novels were nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Born in Bermuda and living in Nottingham with his wife and two children, Jon is a writer-in-residence for First Story; a charity founded to improve literacy and nurture creativity in London, Oxford and Nottinghamshire.