Box Hill

About Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones first collection of stories Lantern Lecture won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982 and he appeared on Grantas Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel The Waters of Thirst was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011) which form the first two parts of a semiinfinite novel series. His essay Noriko Smiling (Notting Hill Editions 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema Yasujiro Ozus Late Spring. His memoir Kid Gloves was published by Particular Books in 2015. He won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Box Hill. He writes book reviews for the LRB and film reviews for the TLS.