As a journalist for The Guardian and a writer with a gift for satire and pastiche, Jon Crace feels that through literature, we become more human.

John celebrates literature as the most eloquent tool we have. We think in language, we live our lives in language; and literature is words on the page that can change our lives. He also delights in the fact that the next persona to be featured on the new ten-pound note in England and Gibraltar will be a novelist – Jane Austen.