John O’Connell
John O’Connell worked for several years at the London listings magazine Time Out, where he was Books Editor. He now writes, mostly about books, for The Times, The Guardian, New Statesman and The National. He is the author of I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria (Short Books, 2005) and The Midlife Manual (Short Books, 2010). He is 37 and lives in south London with his wife and two children.
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For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication
Handwritten is a celebration of letter-writing in all its guises
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Baskerville
Based on real events, The Baskerville Legacy is a thrilling, frequently terrifying exploration of friendship and rivalry, love and lust, ambition and the limits of…
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The Baskerville Legacy: A Confession
When a young journalist, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, meets his writer hero Arthur Conan Doyle on a troop ship coming back from South Africa, he is…
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The Midlife Manual
This manual is here to help those of us experiencing 'midlife', showing us how to get the meagre most out of these years and making…
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I Told You I Was Ill
Do you worry that spots are cancerous? That headaches are caused by tapeworm larvae burrowing into your brain? If so, you're almost certainly a hypochondriac.…