Adam Mars-Jones' first collection of stories,
Lantern Lecture , won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982, and he appeared on
Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel,
The Waters of Thirst , was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by
Pilcrow (2008) and
Cedilla (2011), which form the first two parts of a semiinfinite novel series. His essay
Noriko Smiling (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu's
Late Spring . His memoir
Kid Gloves was published by Particular Books in 2015. He writes book reviews for the
LRB and film reviews for the
TLS.
