Man in the Shed

Lloyd Jones is the author of several novels and short story collections which include Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize best book award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

'Jones moves fluently from small incidents to large emotions, transforming the mundane . . . the attentive care for minute particulars is found on page after page . . . People who might otherwise seem unremarkable are realised on the page and in our imagination, with all their affection, anger and puzzlement'