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John Norman Cooper

British novelist · Born 1939

John Norman Cooper - British Novelist

John Norman Cooper, photographed in later life.

John Norman Cooper is a British novelist whose work explores psychological disturbance, fractured identity, and the intrusion of the unreal into ordinary life.​

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His two-part novel The Recycling of Nathan Scrzimshaw unfolds across post-war London and later Australia, tracing a young man’s psychic dislocation as memory, time, and bodily autonomy begin to fracture. His writing is shaped by post-war Britain and a lifelong interest in consciousness, perception, and moral ambiguity.

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The Recycling of Nathan Scrzimshaw is published by Scrzimshaw House Press, with editorial preparation and publication overseen by Julia Cooper.

© 2026 Scrzimshaw House Press

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