Jacob Ross

Jacob Ross

His second novel, The Bone Readers, was published in 2016 was awarded the inaugural Jhalak Prize.^[5]

In November 2017, Ross published his collected stories, Tell No-One About This. David Constantine wrote:

Such good writing! A truthful examination of our fraught, unsteady and ambivalent relations with one another and with the world we live in. Jacob Ross writes out of an intense and loving knowledge of particular places. His writing is unsentimental, clear-sighted, urgently insistent on the possibility of more humane dealings. And his lyricism, the making of beautiful sentences, is always an answering back against the fear that we may never do better than we are doing now.^[11]

Awards and recognition

• 2006: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature^[12]
• 2017:
  Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour for The Bone Readers.^[13]

• Song for Simone and Other Stories (London:
  ISBN 978-0946918294
  )
• Behind the Masquerade: The Story of Notting Hill Carnival (with
  ISBN 978-0951277003
  )
• Voice, Memory, Ashes: Lest We Forget (co-edited with Dr
  ISBN 978-1902294049
  )
• A Way to Catch the Dust and Other Stories (London: Mango Publishing, 1999;
  ISBN 978-1902294087
  )
• Ridin' n Risin: Short stories by new black writers (Black Inc) and Turf (co-edited with Andrea Enisuoh)
• Pynter Bender (Harper Perennial, 2008;
  ISBN 978-0007222988
  )
• ISBN 978-1845233358
  )
• Black Rain Falling (London: Hachette, 2020;
  ISBN 9780751574425
  )