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:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroRead about the other books on the list.
The Remains of the Day was also an influence for my book in that it takes the English trope of the butler and psychoanalyses it, discovers its sadnesses, its buried memories. Considering it today I think it’s an interesting companion to Ishiguro’s screenplay for Living. Excavating English silences, or the language of avoidance, it is funny and deeply moving, and entire passages of the book are still very vivid to me - more so than any other book on this list.
The Remains of the Day is among Emily Temple's seven great love stories for cynics, Sung J. Woo’s five top mysterious classic novels that take place in a grand manor house, Saumya Roy's seven books about star-crossed lovers, A. Natasha Joukovsky's seven novels that subvert social norms, Mark Skinner's ten best country house novels, Xan Brooks's ten top terrible houses in fiction, Molly Schoemann-McCann's nine great books for people who love Downton Abbey, Lucy Lethbridge's ten top books about servants, and Tim Vine's six best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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