Perfect Architect - “Full of originality... Joso applies an otherworldly curiosity to a basic but universal question: what is it to live somewhere?”
Times Literary Supplement - Keith Miller

Perfect Architect - "Joso maintains a fine balance between the intellectual and the emotional in this promising, character-rich work."
Publishers Weekly, New York


"Perfect Architect is a work of stunning originality and deftness of prose, in which Jayne Joso explores what becomes of the broken-hearted with delicate skill and rare empathy - Cathi Unsworth

Soothing Music for Stray Cats - "may emerge as one of the great, eccentric London novels"
Times Literary Supplement - Ian Thomson

Greetings! Official site for author Jayne Joso

Greetings! Official site for author Jayne Joso
Perfect Architect (2011)

Joso News...

“Full of originality... Joso applies an otherworldly curiosity to a basic but universal question: what is it to live somewhere?” Keith Miller, The Times Literary Supplement
BBC Radio London 94.9 Jayne Joso on The Late Show with Joanne Good talking about her London based novel: Soothing Music for Stray Cats -


Soothing Music for Stray Cats now cited in Green’s Dictionary of Slang..

Jayne Joso and photographer Omar Gamez namechecked in Dazed & Confused magazine (April 2011)

Buzz Magazine (April 2011) features Soothing Music for Stray Cats & Perfect Architect

BBC6 Music Cerys featured: Soothing Music for Stray Cats as must buy for Christmas !

Jayne Joso's poetry published by American micro-magazine Abe's Penny - featured here on The New Yorker site...

The poem: Desire at Abe's Penny...

Soothing Music for Stray Cats - shortlisted for People's BookJayne Joso honoured for her contribution to the Literature of Wales.

- more interviews, reviews and blog entries further down...

Jayne Joso is not on facebook or twitter

Events History - Selected

Monday, 10 May 2010

Bowler Hats and Underpants!

The Sohemian Society presents: Jayne Joso and actor Terence Frisch reading from:
'Soothing Music for Stray Cats' May 19th, 7.30pm"It was Friday night, the city was starting to buzz, and even this far out, you could still sense the beginnings of it, or the ‘outer-ripples’ so to speak, it was as though I could almost feel its pulse beneath my feet, the trains there rumbling underground, rattling the earth around them—Manor House tube station—I’d arrived. I climbed down the steps to its exotic, subterranean world of shaking trains in dilapidated, low tiled tunnels...."

"...and tomorrow - like a right pair of sods, we’d… we’d do London! Set off down that Jermyn Street, pick up some shirts, or head down Saville Row, and we’d get measured up all proper, get suited and booted, the tailored treatment, and then we’d run riot just the two of us through Trafalgar square..."
...come as you are, or feel free to be suited and booted, the tailored treatment

Contact

to contact the author email the mellowcats team: themellowcats@yahoo.com

re: facebook requests - Jayne Joso is not on facebook.