Tell

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Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of other people's. Structured as a series of interview transcripts with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide, it is a thrilling novel of strange, intoxicating immediacy, and the co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize.

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'Buckley's fiction is subtle and fastidiously low-key ... every apparently loose thread, when tugged, reveals itself to be woven into the themes [and] gets better the more you allow it to settle in your mind.'

- Michel Faber,Guardian

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'Few writers manage to conjure such raw unease as Jonathan Buckley ... completely compelling.'

- Adrian Turpin,Financial Times

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'Exactly why Buckley is not already revered and renowned as a novelist in the great European tradition remains a mystery that will perhaps only be addressed at that final godly hour when all the overlooked authors working in odd and antique modes will receive their just rewards.'

- Ian Sansom,Times Literary Supplement

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'Why isn't Jonathan Buckley better known His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy,The Great Concert of the Night, is captivating.'

- John Banville

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Author Bio

JonathanBuckleyis a writer and editor from the West Midlands, now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for 'Briar Road', and he is a regular contributor to theTimes Literary Supplement.Tellis his twelfth novel. His previous novels were published by Sort Of Books in the UK, and NYRB in the US.Tellwas the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize,a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was selected from close to 1,000 submissions.