Stephen Grant is a London-based novelist, educator, and trade unionist. He is the author of two novels: the award-winning campus novel A MOMENT MORE SUBLIME, which cost him his job as lecturer of philosophy at Richmond upon Thames College and was short-listed for THE GUARDIAN's Not the Booker Prize in 2015; and, most recently, SPANISH LIGHT, the quintessential, thrilling European novel about the 2008 global economic crisis and its aftermath.
Reversals of fortune are at the heart of "Spanish Light," Stephen Grant's enthralling novel about the 2008 global financial crisis. Set in England and Spain, it is the extraordinary tale of a renegade London banker whose quest for redemption takes an unexpected turn when he falls for a Spanish philosopher-activist and finds himself embroiled in an unwinnable fight against a corrupt government ...
Set in contemporary London, A MOMENT MORE SUBLIME is the riveting story of Tom Phelps, a philosophy teacher and tennis buff, who finds himself unexpectedly embroiled in his union’s struggle against a corrupt school administration and its plans to cut jobs under the pretense of modernization and fiscal austerity, just as he and his partner Sofia are getting ready to buy a home and start a family...