Howard Cunnell – Editor
Howard’s latest book is the memoir Fathers and Sons (Picador 2017) which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and described as ‘dazzlingly beautiful…lucid and unforgettable’ by the Financial Times.
Howard Cunnell’s acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons (Picador, 2017) was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and described as ‘unique, and uniquely beautiful’ (Financial Times); it explores his experiences as a fatherless man raising a transgender son. His novel The Sea on Fire (Picador, 2012), ‘maps new noir territory in an incandescent underwater world’ (Guardian), and draws from Cunnell’s life as a dive guide and scuba instructor. He has a PhD from the University of London, and is the contributing editor of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road – The Original Scroll (Viking, 2007), which the New York Times called ‘the living version for our time.’ His third novel, The Painter’s Friend, will be published by Picador in 2021.
Genres Howard specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary | |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) | |
Crime / Thriller / Action |
Non-Fiction:
Memoir/Autobiography | |
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Other narrative non-fiction |
Howard’s published books
Peres et Fils
Peres et Fils
Built in the style of a diptych, Fathers and Sons is an overwhelming tale of life. The first half of the book is entirely filled with the absence of the narrator’s father and the son’s wanderings, unable to fill this emotional void. Dark years, in permanent danger, which will come, in a second time, to appease love and fatherhood. But there is still a long way to go: Jay, the author’s adopted daughter, is a tortured teenager.
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons: A memoirThe Sea on Fire
The Sea on Fire Marine Boy
Marine Boy 
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