Jon Day is a writer, critic and academic. He is the author of Cyclogeography (Notting Hill Editions, 2015) and Homing (John Murray, 2019), which was a book of the year in the Guardian, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Observer, and was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and his essays and reviews have also appeared in the Financial Times, New York Review of Books, Bookforum, n+1, Guardian, The Spectator and many others. He teaches English and creative writing at King's College London.
Precise and poignant - Spectator I love Jon Day's writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account - Olivia Laing A compelling blend of personal memoir, nature writing and popular science, Day's book considers the humble pigeon, probably our oldest companion species. - Mail on Sunday 'A terrific book which explores the sport inside out, as well as our own human concept of what home is' - Daily Telegraph A dazzlingly erudite memoir about family, children and pigeon-fancying. An unlikely combination perhaps, but Day pulls it off. - Prospect Magazine A meditation that swoops agilely over topics from tyranny of technology to the paradoxes of parenting and the rewards of simply staying put. . . . A joyful, richly rewarding book - Mail on Sunday Big-hearted and quietly gripping - The Guardian [A] Vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a rich working-class tradition...a charming defence of a much-maligned bird - Daily Mail