On my radar: Jon McGregor’s cultural highlights

The novelist and short-story writer on grime music, a play about the Falklands conflict, and the educational benefits of coffeeBorn in Bermuda and raised in Norfolk, Jon McGregor wrote his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, while working in a vegetarian restaurant. The novel was long-listed for the 2002 Booker prize, making McGregor, then 26, the youngest ever contender. He has written two more novels as well as short fiction. The University of Nottingham gave him an honorary do