Jonny Sweet started out winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2009, and in the intervening years, his work as a writer and actor has been varied and exceptional. His first feature was Wicked Little Letters, starring Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley.
Alongside writing and acting, he develops and produces TV and film through his award-winning company People Person Pictures.
The Kellerby Code is Sweet's debut novel.
At the Waterstones blog the author tagged "his all-time favourite novels set in country manors." One title on the list:
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn WaughRead about another title on the list.
I read A Handful of Dust as an A Level text. We were still a bit punch drunk from Pinter, Heaney and Hamlet. It remains my favourite Waugh novel, I’m sure partly for this reason, and for me it acts as a watermark for what funny books can achieve. In a way it’s merely a story about upper class adultery. But intimate betrayals transcend domesticity and come to mean something politically and philosophically resonant. It was written in a period of moral and ideological vacuity, perhaps a year before the precipice of war and fascism was first impossible to ignore. It manages to be both cold and human at the same time and one character has a timelessly acerbic response to a tragic death.
A Handful of Dust is among KT Sparks's seven best graceless literary exits.
--Marshal Zeringue
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