Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm (1999) and six other novels.

Life

Arnott was born in Buckinghamshire. Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at 17, he had various jobs including labourer, mortuary technician, artist's model, theatrical agency assistant, actor both with the Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and appearing as a mummy in the film The Mummy. He lived in squats such as Bonnington Square and came out as bisexual in his twenties. In 2005 Arnott was ranked one of Britain's 100 most influential LGBT people.

Works

All of the novels by Arnott are engaged in the excavation of secret histories in the teasing out and restoration of events that have taken place beneath the surface of society.