Jonathan Rendall
Jonathan Rendall’s first book, This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own (Faber & Faber), about boxing, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham award. His second, Twelve Grand (Jonathan Cape), a novel, was critically acclaimed and made into a Channel 4 TV series. He is a columnist for The Times and also writes regularly for The Observer Sports Monthly. He lives and works in Suffolk.
‘What a wonderful, artful book!’
Tom Stoppard on This Bloody Mary
‘This Bloody Mary puts you inside the battered head of boxing better than anything else I’ve ever read. It’s brilliant, and it’s touching and by the time you’ve reached the end, you know exactly what the title means’
Tom Wolfe
‘A clever book, with a vulnerable heart inside its tough outer shell ... absolutely cracking’
Independent
Books by Jonathan Rendall
Garden Hopping
A poignant memoir from a prize-winning author.
Garden Hopping: when you leap through people’s gardens in the dead of night. Only a few boys did it. The air rushed through you. You were like a phantom. You could have been anyone. It is an apt metaphor for the adoption business.
As a teenager Jonathan Rendall used to go garden hopping; he had been adopted in the 1960s. Then it was easy. People could just pick out the children they wanted, down to the colour of their hair. But what of the children themselves? And what happens when years later they trace their real parents?
A harrowing and often shocking journey into the dark night of identity.
UK and Commonwealth Rights: Canongate Books
All Other Territories: Jenny Brown Associates
Scream: The Biography of Mike Tyson
The definitive work on a fallen superstar.
Delving into the psyche of a deeply troubled and intriguing figure; examining the paradoxes prevalent in boxing’s beloved bad boy; bringing vividly to life a history of street-gang violence, juvenile prison, sex scandals, marital strife, courtroom battles, and imprisonment – Jonathan Rendall, an award-winning writer and former manager of a boxing World Champion himself, is the ideal person to produce one of the greatest boxing books ever written.
World Rights: Jenny Brown Associates
Jonathan Rendall is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Stan - .