You are welcome to browse the various pages of the Joseph Connolly Website. Pretty much all the relevant information is here - but the real point of all authors is, of course, just the books (and in particular the novels). It is hoped that these are what you will read next.
Joseph Connolly is the critically acclaimed writer of ten novels published by Faber & Faber (all of which are in print) as well as various non-fiction works including biographies of P.G.Wodehouse and Jerome K. Jerome.
Fiction: POOR SOULS, THIS IS IT, STUFF, SUMMER THINGS which was made into an internationally successful film starring Charlotte Rampling, WINTER BREAKS, IT CAN’T GO ON, S.O.S, THE WORKS, LOVE IS STRANGE, JACK THE LAD AND BLOODY MARY.
Non-fiction: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, P.G. WODEHOUSE: AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY, JEROME K. JEROME: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: THEIR VALUE TO COLLECTORS, THE PENGUIN BOOK QUIZ BOOK, CHILDREN’S MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, BESIDE THE SEASIDE, ALL SHOOK UP: A FLASH OF THE FIFTIES, CHRISTMAS, AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT, WODEHOUSE.
Coming in October 2007 is Folio 60: A Bibliography Of The Folio Society 1947-2007 by Paul Nash, to which Joseph Connolly has written the 4000 word introduction.
A Hedonist's Guide to Life will be published in October 2007, to which Joseph Connolly has contributed two essays - on the joys of whisky, and the even greater joys of lunch.
Joseph Connolly’s next project is FABER AND FABER: EIGHTY YEARS OF BOOK DESIGN. This will be a lavishly produced volume in hardback and paperback, published in 2009 for Faber’s 80th birthday.
