{"id":1494,"date":"2018-06-18T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:02:12","slug":"mst-tutor-sam-thompsons-novel-jott-published-by-john-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Sam Thompson&#8217;s novel &#8220;Jott&#8221; published by John Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hodder.co.uk\/assets\/HodderStoughton\/img\/book\/063\/isbn9781473675063.jpg?resize=117%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"117\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MSt tutor Sam Thompson&#8217;s new novel <em>Jott <\/em> has been published by John Murray.<\/p>\n<p>From the publisher&#8217;s announcement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood by his brilliant, troubled friend. But after years of playing the unassuming companion, he is learning that loyalty has its costs: that old friendship may thwart new love, and perhaps even blur distinctions between the sane and the mad . . .<\/p>\n<p><i>Jott<\/i> is a story about friendship, madness and modernism from the author of the Man Booker-longlisted <i>Communion Town<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodder.co.uk\/books\/detail.page?isbn=9781473675063\">the John Murray website<\/a>, and see Sam talk about it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jott Promo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jf15ZTGZD8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSt tutor Sam Thompson&#8217;s new novel Jott has been published by John Murray. From the publisher&#8217;s announcement: &#8220;In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux. 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