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Stump by Niall Griffiths (Vintage, May 2004)
A black farce that traces a trajectory of violent retribution between Liverpool and Aberystwyth, following two shell-suited gangsters on their journey from Merseyside to the seaside town to settle a score.
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Kelly and Victor by Niall Griffiths (Minerva, 2003)
A powerful, often frightening tale in which people capable of the purest acts of love are also capable of violence and fatal obsessions.
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Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths (Vintage, 2002)
Written in tough and fiercely native prose, this is a coming-of-age novel about a bunch of promiscuous, disenchanted, druggy Welsh youngsters, growing up in a world from which they feel disconnected.
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Grits by Niall Griffiths (Vintage, 2001)
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 to this place and begin an intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life is lacking at the end of this momentous century.
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Links
Niall Griffiths' Favourite Welsh Books
http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,434816,00.html
The Guardian asks Mr Griffiths to name his top 10 Welsh books.
Paperback Writer
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/
tm_objectid=14373397&method=full&siteid=50082
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An online interview with Niall Griffiths in which he discusses his life and his books.
Niall Griffiths: Don't Kill the Wales
www.disturb.org/Griffiths_eng.html
An interview carried out with the author in Paris, 2002.
Stump Does It
www.artswales.org/pressoffice/newsdetail.asp?newsid=165
Press Release of the author's latest book Stump which won the 2004 Book of the Year prize
Credits
Produced to accompany The Art Show: Confessions of a Sheepshagger (a World of Wonder production), first screened on Channel 4 in August 2004.
Writer: David Highton
Designer: Ian Hallworth
Editor: Mariette Jackson
Project manager: Red Cinnamon
Resources co-ordinators: Nicole Carman
Picture researcher: Nick Pearson
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