Joseph Connolly (born 23 March 1950) is an English journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer.
Biography
For many years he owned The Flask Bookshop in
Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the north, Belsiz ...
, London. Having started writing fiction rather late in life, he is best known today for
comic novels, especially in France, where they have been translated by
Alain Defossé. He also contributes to ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...
'' and other publications.
His son is Charles Connolly, a musician. The two live in Hampstead.
Work
Novels
*''
Poor Souls'' (1995)
*''This Is It'' (1996)
*''Stuff'' (1997)
*''Summer Things'' (1998) (filmed in France in
2002 by
Michel Blanc as ''
Embrassez qui vous voudrez'' starring
Charlotte Rampling,
Jacques Dutronc and
Carole Bouquet)
*''Winter Breaks'' (1999)
*''It Can't Go On'' (2001)
*''S.O.S.'' (2001)
*''The Works'' (2003)
*''Love Is Strange'' (2005)
*''Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary'' (2007)
*''England's Lane'' (2012)
*''Boys and Girls'' (2014)
*''Style'' (2015)
*''This is 64'' (2016)
Most of his novels were published by
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret S ...
. ''England's Lane'', ''Boys and Girls'', ''Style'', and ''This is 64'' were published by
Quercus
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisp ...
.
"English Publications"
''josephconnolly.co.uk''. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
Non-fiction
*''Collecting Modern First Editions'' (1975) (a standard work on book collecting
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is ''bibliophilia'', and someo ...
)
*''Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors'' (1984)
*''Children's Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors'' (1988)
*'' P.G. Wodehouse'' (1979) (biography)
*'' Jerome K. Jerome'' (1982) (biography)
*''Beside the Seaside'' (1999)
*''All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties'' (2000)
*''Christmas And How to Survive It: Laughter Matters'' (2003)
*'' Eighty Years of Book Cover Design'' (2008)
References
External links
Official JosephConnolly.co.uk
official website
*
"Sharing an Ashtray with ... Joseph Connolly" (interview)
Hasweb.org
The Hampstead Authors' Society
A review of ''Love Is Strange'' from the '' Camden New Journal'' (includes author photograph)
Findarticles.com
Joseph Connolly on Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social crit ...
(''The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...
'', 20 August 2005)
*
Ham and High
Charles Connolly in the Hampstead High.
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1950 births
Living people
People from Hampstead
Writers from the London Borough of Camden
20th-century English novelists
21st-century English novelists
English male journalists
English male novelists
20th-century English male writers
21st-century English male writers