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Journalism


Rayner is the son of the journalist newspaper after graduating from Leeds University in 1988 where he was editor of the Student Newspaper . He serves as the Observer's restaurant critic. He has written for a wide range of British newspapers and magazines such as GQ , Esquire , Cosmopolitan , the New Statesman and Granta . His reporting has covered everything from crime and politics, the arts, culture, food, fashion and finance both in Britain and abroad. His work is regularly syndicated in Europe, Australasia and America. In 1992 he was named Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards .


Novelist


His first novel The Marble Kiss published in 1994 was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Of Great Britain First Novel Award , and his second Day Of Atonement published in 1998 for the Jewish Quarterly Prize For Fiction . His first work of non-fiction Stardust Falling was published in 2002 and was followed by his third novel The Apologist , published in the US as Eating Crow, in 2004.


Broadcaster


In 1997 he won a Sony Radio Award for Papertalk, BBC Radio Five Live 's magazine programme about the newspaper business, which he presented.

Jay's brother Adam Rayner is a respected motoring journalist who appears on BBC Breakfast to comment on motoring topics. He is also currently Editor of Talk Audio an on-line magazine dealing with car audio and in-car entertainment. Adam is married with one son and lives in North London.


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