Jon McGregor & Blake Morrison at the Cambridge Wordfest, ADC Theatre, Cambridge. 4.30pm. For more details, see the festival website.
Jon will also be appearing at the Hay-on-Wye, Dartington, Latitude, and Edinburgh festivals later this year. More details to follow…

Even The Dogs has been chosen as the February Book of the Month on the Hay Festival website. Which is nice. If you go to their site now, you can buy the book at a special price, with free postage, in the reassuring knowledge that 10% of the price goes to a charity. Yes, you’ve got your own copy by now, surely: but you can always buy one for a friend. (And yes, we know it’s not February any more. You know it’s not February any more. But let’s not tell Hay Festivals that just yet, eh?)
Buy Even The Dogs from the Hay Festival site.

The reviews of Even The Dogs keep coming. And with the exception of Time Out Chicago, so far they’re looking good. Here are a few to keep you busy: The Times, Sunday Telegraph, and Metro. Take a look at the Reviews page for some more.
You can also see an interview on Dublin’s RTE 1 here (scroll down the page a bit), or catch Jon talking on Radio 4’s Open Book here.
And bear in mind that, with a reprint already on the way, you haven’t got long to get your hands on a first edition. Which, by the way, retail at £12.99, not the startling £17 quoted in some reviews. It is a short book, after all.

Even The Dogs has now been published by Bloomsbury and is in all the shops and you can go and buy it right now. Waterstones are offering three copies for the price of two, so you can stock up on birthday presents.
The reviews are starting to appear: The Guardian, The Metro, The Sunday Times, and The Financial Times are all enthusiastic. Which is a good start. See the reviews page for more.
Jon McGregor will be reading from and talking about Even The Dogs at forthcoming events in Bath, Manchester, Nottingham, Rayleigh, Toronto, New York, York, Cambridge and Chelsea. See the events page for details, and check back for news of more events to follow.

Jon McGregor will be reading from and talking about his new novel, Even The Dogs, at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, in an event organised by the very fine bookshop Mr B’s Emporium. Tickets are £5, the event starts at 7pm, and you can find out more here.

Jon McGregor will be joined by Josephine Oniyama, Dan Antopolski and Francesca Beard at this New Year’s edition of Bookslam, London’s literary nightclub. Jon will be reading from his just-about-to-be-published new novel, Even The Dogs. The others will be singing, joking, and hosting. It will be a cracking evening. It’s at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill, and word is you can get very good food and very good drinks. Get your tickets, and more info, here.
And ignore what it says about Jon’s footballing skills. They’re joking. We think.

Jon McGregor will be talking at the University Staff Club, on the main Nottingham University campus, this Thursday, 6-8pm.  The event, which is aimed at post-graduate students but is also open to the public, will feature Jon discussing a post-Marxist Hegelian critique of  e-book dialectics and the very purpose and function of the writer.  He will also attempt to answer the question of whether he uses a pen or a computer.

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things has been named the 56th best book of the last decade in The Times this week.  Which is nice.

(Although we would just like to point out, to any journalists who live in London and very occasionally forget that there are other towns and cities within the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, that If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is very pointedly NOT about “a single day in a London street”.  The location is never clearly identified, admittedly, but it’s very much not London.)

Jon McGregor will be talking about his work, and reading some of it, at this event. His slot is at 1.30pm. Other writers appearing at the day-long event include Helen Dunmore, Judith Allnatt and Hardeep Singh Kohli. There will also be talks on theatre and radio writing, Irish literature, and the late Stanley Middleton. Tickets are £15 for the day: call 0115 9202247 for more details.

Breaking yet another of his sworn vows – this very website being evidence of an earlier broken vow – Jon will be teaching classes at Nottingham University on the 16th and 23rd of this month. The classes, which will focus on “maintaining momentum”, are only open to enrolled students, but he thought you’d like to know.