Bøker av Niall Griffiths

An historical novel set in Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom.

A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town, a one armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any life he's lived before: a normal one. However, two men are leaving Liverpool, sent by their gang boss to wreak revenge on a one armed man, maybe living somewhere in west Wales.

Sixteen-year-old Grace has dreams, and she knows how to make them come true: a little silicone and surgery here and there -nose, breasts, lips, hair, teeth, nails. Then with the right clothes and a new tan she'll be ready: ready to be seen, consumed and adored by millions.

In 1976, Niall's family emigrated to Australia, as part of the GBP10 Pom scheme. He lived there for 3 years, moving from Brisbane to Perth in a souped-up station wagon. 30 years later, he returned to retrace his steps; this is a memoir, travelogue, rant, paean, elegy, and perhaps the closest thing to an autoibiography that Niall will ever write.

On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm.

Reveals the story of Ianto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents.

In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves together on the coast of Wales. They explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions that brought them this place, promiscuity, drugs, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life is lacking at the end of this momentous century.

This, she thinks, is the best sex she's ever had.So the story of Kelly + Victor progresses, through two mirror-image narratives: a story of the growth and spiralling intensity of sexual obsession, traced to its inevitable, devastating conclusion.