cover image of the book Tell

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 Samson, The Times Literary Supplement

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own and of other people’s lives

Available Mar, 05 2024

Tell

by Jonathan Buckley

Jonathan Buckley’s 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.

Calling his work “captivating,” John Banville has asked: “Why isn’t Jonathan Buckley better known?"

Paperback(published Mar, 05 2024)

ISBN
9780811237918
Price US
14.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
160pp

Ebook

ISBN
9780811237925
Portrait of Jonathan Buckley

Jonathan Buckley

An award-winning writer and editor

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 Samson, The Times Literary Supplement

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.

Michael Faber, The Guardian

An exceptional talent.

The Bookseller (UK)

Affecting, carefully drafted, quietly tumultuous.

TLS