Fitzcarraldo Editions
Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of six previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum's catalogue of artists' postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC's Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.
'I don't think I've ever felt such warmth for a character, or that
I've been able to see cinema through another's eyes in such a
lucid, sustained way. As Brian moves further and further into a
life of moviegoing, ordering his days, and then years, around it,
he finds companionship and a calm sense of wellbeing. As I read
this beautifully subtle novel, I found the same.' - Amina Cain,
author of A Horse at Night
'After having published his luminous Ash Before Oak, Jeremy
Cooper now brings us Brian, equally a work of mysterious
interiority and poetry. It confirms that however solitary life
might be, art enriches both our imaginations and our realities.
This is a very tender book.'
- Xiaolu Guo, author of A Lover's Discourse
'There's a strange magic to Jeremy Cooper's writing. The way he
puts words together creates an incantatory effect. Reading him is
to be spellbound, then. I have no idea how he does it, only that I
am seduced.' - Ben Myers, author of The Offing
'Jeremy Cooper's work is consistently haunting and layered, built
on a refreshing trust in the reader to delve deeper behind the
quiet insinuations of his prose. His work resists every modern
accelerant, creating a patient and precise tonic. He is easily one
of the most thoughtful British fiction writers working today.' -
Adam Scovell, author of How Pale the Winter Has Made Us
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