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Adam Mars-Jones
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Adam Mars-Jones was born in 1954. He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge. His first collection of stories, LANTERN LECTURE, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982. He writes book reviews for the Observer and his latest novel CEDILLA, was published by Faber & Faber on 20th of January 2011. 'peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic' London Review Of Books 'truly exhilarating' The Sunday Times Praise for CEDILLA (2011): 'one of the most brilliant fictional projects of recent years...' Philip Hensher, The Spectator 'one of the most original comic creations in recent years. You won't regret going along for the ride.’ Alex Clarke, The Guardian 'we are clearly in the presence of a formidable talent operating at full strength … There isn’t a passage here that doesn’t sparkle with some well-phrased perception, neatly overturned cliché or freshly minted pun. And while it can be draining to read a book of this size in which most sentences prompt you to smile, laugh or revise an opinion, you couldn’t exactly call this a weakness'. Leo Robson, Daily Telegraph ‘Mars-Jones is undoubtedly a wonderful writer and in John he has created a fabulously idiosyncratic character.’ Melissa McClements, Financial Times 'unsettling, disarming, and compellingly readable... I am disarmed and disabled' Margaret Drabble, The Observer |
CEDILLA 
Pilcrow 
Monopolies Of Loss 
Blind Bitter Happiness 
The Darker Proof
| Publication Details | Notes |
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| CEDILLA 2011 Faber & Faber | Cedilla takes up the narrative where PILCROW left off. John Cromer launches himself into the wider world of mainstream education, and comes upon deeper joys, subtler setbacks. |
| PILCROW 2008 Faber & Faber | Mars-Jones's first novel in fifteen years is a tender, dense and almost Proustian depiction of the difficult life of John Cromer, a precocious but brittle-boned and bedbound sufferer of a rare genetic disorder called Still's disease. Under the nom de plume 'Pilcrow', he evokes the experience of growing up disabled and gay in the 1950s - circumstances which force John from an early age to develop an intense and vivid internal world. |
| THE WATERS OF THIRST 1993 Faber & Faber | William thought trust was a good idea; Terry needed a lover who would keep his little secret. But how does accidental monogamy survive in a world ruled by illness and denial? |
| MONOPOLIES OF LOSS 1992 Faber & Faber | Nine short stories tackling the ethical implications of writing about AIDS, four of which previously appeared in THE DARKER PROOF. |
| THE DARKER PROOF: STORIES FROM A CRISIS 1988 Faber | The Darker Proof, an anthology of stories about suffering with the HIV virus, was first published in 1987 to critical acclaim. This updated version, which includes stories by Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White, was published in 1988. |
| LANTERN LECTURE 1981 Faber & Faber | A collection of short stories for which the author was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award. |
| Publication Details | Notes |
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| BLIND BITTER HAPPINESS 1997 Chatto & Windus | Adam Mars-Jones shares his views on subjects as diverse as Gore Vidal; Martin Amis; Ian McEwan; gay fiction; queer politics; fear of the bomb; Marc Almond; and his mothers. |
