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BENJAMIN JOHNCOCK is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and journalist. His debut novel, The Last Pilot, was published in the U.S. (Picador) and U.K. (Myriad) in 2015 to widespread critical acclaim. It won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book of the Year, selected for Brave New Reads, and was one of The Observer’s Hidden Gems of 2016. His award-winning short stories have been published by The Fiction Desk, The Junket, Comma Press and Storgy. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Spectator, and many others, and he has worked as an editor and copywriter. He’s on the editorial board of The Letters Page, a literary journal edited by Jon McGregor at the University of No ...more

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Benjamin Johncock If we’re talking romantic couples, I think it has to be Clare and Henry from The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. If we look outside romanc…moreIf we’re talking romantic couples, I think it has to be Clare and Henry from The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. If we look outside romance, there are so many great couples - of all different dynamics - in literature! George and Lennie (Of Mice and Men), Andy and Red (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption), Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect (The Hitch-Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy), Danny and his father (Danny the Champion of the World), Mattie Ross and Rooster Cockburn (True Grit), Richard Neville and Ben Cortman (I Am Legend), Huck and Jim (Huckleberry Finn), Holmes and Watson (Sherlock Holmes), Mr Stevens and Miss Kenton (Remains of the Day), Frodo and Sam (Lord of the Rings), Sophie and the BFG (The BFG), Harry and Hermione (Harry Potter), Pi and Richard Parker (Life of Pi)... you could write a pretty decent book on the subject.(less)

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Benjamin Johncock It's commonly mis-attributed to Twain, but the quote about the two most important days of your life being the day you were born and the day you find o…moreIt's commonly mis-attributed to Twain, but the quote about the two most important days of your life being the day you were born and the day you find out why form, I think, the central mystery of my own life - a mystery that has been solved by Jesus Christ. And I think this fundamental question of life - why were we born? why are we here? what is the point of life? - lies at the heart of everything I write, and always has done. The quote, incidentally, was most likely from a sermon given by Ernest T. Campbell, minister of the Riverside Church in New York City. ("Apocryphal Twain" would make a pretty decent Twitter account, by the way, much like "Accidental Partridge".)
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	The Last Pilot 3.65 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Will You Read This, Please? by Joanna Cannon, Jenn Ashworth, Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 567 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maginot Line by Rob Redman (Editor), Benjamin Johncock (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Matt Plass (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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