Jazz etc.

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [x], 261. Pictorial wraps with cover design by Colin Brownson.

Author's third novel. Longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. An uncategorizable tale of jazz, Cumbria and dictator-era Portugal – a linguistic riff with a touch of magic realism.

"Murray demonstrates once again his uncanny ability to give his readers' stomach muscles a good workout as they attempt to stifle paroxysms of uproarious laughter for fear of being thought unhinged... his phonetic rendering of Vince's language is a comic masterpiece." –Anthea Lawson, The Times