{"title":"Books by Tim Lott","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781800752214","title":"Yes! No! But Wait...!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYes! No! But Wait…!\u003c\/em\u003e is the most straightforward book on writing a novel ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also the most practical, honest and useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Lott admits he can’t teach someone how to write a novel (that’s one of the myths propagated by the novel-writing industry).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut he can help anyone construct a solid platform on which they can stand to discover whether they have the talent, will and imagination required of any novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA distillation of a lifetime’s reading, writing and thinking about stories and how to tell them, \u003cem\u003eYes! No! 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It is a story for everyone trying to make sense of a sharply polarised world where the political has become personal and the personal has become a minefield.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Brighton, December 2019: a teenage girl is on an early morning run along the seafront. In her mind she is running away from something she hates, towards something she fears.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e China’s home is with her mother Veronica, her pompous stepfather Silas and his dysfunctional son Mason. Her father, Frankie, is in London, but they have little contact, his entrenched views a provocation to her socially conscious ideals, his Brexit-supporting girlfriend a jealous rival.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Exhausted by family tensions, when China leaves Brighton, her godfather Nodge, Frankie’s best friend, and his husband Owen are her first port of call. But they, too, are beset by domestic conflict. Which leaves only her father to takes her in. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey argue, they spar, the fault lines between them grow wider – and then coronavirus strikes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Rich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity’  ― Sarah Hughes, i paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘What a terrific novel – wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining – I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what's not to like’  ― Deborah Moggach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this book’  ― Sadie Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author’ ― Jonathan Coe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Lott delivers many hilarious and sad scenes of life in a long-term relationship. He also explores the poignancy and fragility of male friendships, in a manner reminiscent of Graham Swift’s \u003ci\u003eLast Orders\u003c\/i\u003e. . .  [He is,] crucially, careful to linger over moral difficulty and vulnerability rather than evading it’ ― \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Lott’s carefully observed period piece captures the mood of an era that now seems like a lost world’ ― \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43128769839282,"sku":"9781398505599","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685699395957,"sku":"9781398505568","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398505599.jpg?v=1792598853"},{"product_id":"9780141191485","title":"The Scent of Dried Roses","description":"Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties and his own bouts of depression, Tim Lott conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood and the rapidly changing landscape of postwar suburban England. It is a story of grief, loss and dislocation, yet also of the power of memory and the bonds of family love.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225251590517,"sku":"9780141191485","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141191485_1b5292d8-c476-49a2-ab9b-c23d50eef133.jpg?v=1786011682"},{"product_id":"9781471161582","title":"When We Were Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Water Strider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity.’ \u003cb\u003eSarah Hughes\u003ci\u003e, i paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘What a terrific novel - wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining - I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what's not to like’ \u003cb\u003eDeborah Moggach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMillennium Eve\u003c\/b\u003e and six people gather on a London rooftop. Recently married, Frankie Blue watches with his wife, Veronica, as the sky above the Thames explodes into a kaleidoscope of light. His childhood companion, Colin, ineptly flirts with Roxy, an unlikely first date, while another old friend, Nodge, newly ‘out’, hides his insecurities from his waspish boyfriend.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e New Labour are at their zenith. The economy booms, awash with cheap credit. The arrival of the smartphone heralds the sudden and vast expansion of social media. Mass immigration from Eastern Europe leave many unsettled while religious extremism threatens violent conflict.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An estate agent in a property boom, Frankie is focused simply on getting rich. But can he survive the coming crash? And what will become  of his friends - and his marriage - as they are scoured by the winds of change?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Rich\u003c\/i\u003e finds the characters introduced in \u003cb\u003eTim Lott's award-winning 1999 debut, \u003ci\u003eWhite City Blue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, struggling to make sense of a new era. \u003cb\u003eSad, shocking and often hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e, it is an \u003cb\u003eacutely observed\u003c\/b\u003e novel of all our lives, set during what was for some a golden time - and for others a nightmare, from which we are yet to wake up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Wickedly funny and deeply humane. 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I loved it' \u003cb\u003eIrvine Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lott is excellent\u003c\/b\u003e when it comes to the psychology of a grieving adolescent' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312421843317,"sku":"9781471161582","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781471161582_b3ba8160-e5fa-4af8-861f-42007c5b2697.jpg?v=1786020399"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-tim-lott.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}