Joseph Connolly (born March 23 1950) is an English journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer.
Biography
For many years he owned The Flask Bookshop in
Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from Watling Street, the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the Lon ...
, London. Having started writing fiction rather late in life, he is best known today for
comic novels, especially in France, where they have been translated by
Alain Defossé. He also contributes to ''
The Times'' and other publications.
His son is Charles Connolly, a musician. The two live in Hampstead.
Work
Novels
*''
Poor Souls'' (1985)
*''This Is It'' (1996)
*''Stuff'' (1997)
*''Summer Things'' (1998) (filmed in France in
2002
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by
Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc (born 16 April 1952) is a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, ...
as ''
Embrassez qui vous voudrez
''Summer Things'' (french: Embrassez qui vous voudrez; it, Baciate chi vi pare, also known as ''See How They Run'') is a 2002 French-British-Italian romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Michel Blanc, based on the 1998 novel of t ...
'' starring
Charlotte Rampling
Tessa Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model.
She was cast in the role ...
,
Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc (born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He married singer Françoise Hardy on 30 March 1981 and together they have a son (manouche jazz) guitarist Thomas Dutronc, born 1973); they sep ...
and
Carole Bouquet
Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in ''Too Beautiful for You''. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 f ...
)
*''Winter Breaks'' (1999)
*''It Can't Go On'' (2001)
*''S.O.S.'' (2001)
*''The Works'' (2003)
*''Love Is Strange'' (2005)
*''Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary'' (2007)
*''England's Lane'' (2012)
*''Boys and Girls'' (2014)
*''Style'' (2015)
*''This is 64'' (2016)
Most of his novels were published by
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...
. ''England's Lane'', ''Boys and Girls'', ''Style'', and ''This is 64'' were published by
Quercus.
"English Publications"
''josephconnolly.co.uk''. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
Non-fiction
*''Collecting Modern First Editions'' (1975) (a standard work on book collecting
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is ''bibliophilia'', and someo ...
)
*''Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors'' (1984)
*''Children's Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors'' (1988)
*''P.G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jee ...
'' (1979) (biography)
*'' Jerome K. Jerome'' (1982) (biography)
*''Beside the Seaside'' (1999)
*''All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties'' (2000)
*''Christmas And How to Survive It: Laughter Matters'' (2003)
*''Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
''Eighty Years of Book Cover Design'' is a 2009 book by Joseph Connolly (author), Joseph Connolly published by Faber and Faber. It illustrates the distinctive cover designs used by Faber over the years.
External links
Reviewin ''The Guardian''
...
'' (2008)
References
External links
Official JosephConnolly.co.uk
official website
*
"Sharing an Ashtray with ... Joseph Connolly" (interview)
Hasweb.org
The Hampstead Authors' Society
A review of ''Love Is Strange'' from the '' Camden New Journal'' (includes author photograph)
Findarticles.com
Joseph Connolly on Kingsley Amis ('' The Independent'', 20 August 2005)
*
Ham and High
Charles Connolly in the Hampstead High.
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1950 births
Living people
People from Hampstead
20th-century English novelists
21st-century English novelists
English male journalists
English male novelists
20th-century English male writers
21st-century English male writers