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Jonathan Trigell

a novelist whisky dizzy with the vertigo of possibility

About Me

I'm a writer and free skier who divides my time predominantly between the Chamonix Valley in the French Alps and Hertfordshire in Great Britain.My first novel is called 'Boy A', published by Serpent's Tail in the UK, Commonwealth and United States, by Gallimard in France.Read Reviews of BOY A

Buy BOY A at DVD.co.uk, delivered for less than store price... Read the First Chapter in my Blog

'Boy A' won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize - which the Guardian described as 'the most personal and second oldest of literary prizes', the Waverton Good Read Award and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize.Sarah Waters, chief judge of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize described it as:"A compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas." My next novel 'CHAM' will be published by Serpent's Tail in Oct 2007. I am now working on number three, provisionally entitled 'Genesis'.
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My Interests

My main interests are skiing, reading, a liberal mix of hedonism, good movies, my two tone GTI Caddy, wine and white russians and writing, although that's more of a job. You can read the opening chapter and some newspaper reviews of my first novel 'BOY A' in my blog.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, Riders and Readers, or anyone else.
Click Here to get Boy A from Amazon!

Click Here to get Boy A from Amazon!

Music:

Mister Who ; Phi Life Cypher; The Roots; Roots Manuva; Jurassic 5; Nas; Warren G; Fun Lovin' Criminals; Frank Sinatra; The Streets; Bonobo; Dialated Peoples; Bob Dylan; Gil Scott-Heron; Jackson 5; BT; Barry White; Tim Minchin; Gorillaz; Groove Armada; MC Solar; The Black Eyed Peas (before Elephunk and the appearance of pre-op-pop-gop- Fergie ); Stevie Wonder.

Movies:

Rumblefish; Ice Cold in Alex; American Beauty (yeah, me and the rest of the world); Mystic River; Magnolia; The Blizzard of Aahhh's; Casablanca; Intermission; Fargo; The Good the Bad and the Ugly; Amelie; On the Waterfront; Sin City; American History X; LA Confidential; the English Patient; La Haine; Repo Man; Unforgiven; The Warriors; The Godfather; Man Bites Dog; Pulp Fiction; The Godfather Part II; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; True Romance; Strictly Sinatra; The Seven Samurai; Monster's Ball; Bowling for Columbine; American Graffiti; The Wild Bunch; Taxi; Taxi Driver; The Long Good Friday; The Big Lebowski; Brazil; Get Carter; The Usual Suspects.

Television:

Rots your teeth and gives you brain damage. Though The Simpsons and Ray Mears are pretty spot on and the Croc Hunter will be missed.

Books:

Boy A, by Jonathan Trigell :-) ; Rabbit Run et al; Don Juan; Nausea; Moby Dick; Girls; The Woman and the Ape; American Psycho; Choke; La Chute; The Old Testament(for the sex and violence); Tess of the D'Urbervilles; The Watchmen; King Lear (yes, it's a play, but I've got the book); Guns, Germs and Steel; Last Orders; Naked Lunch; Saturday; The Wasp Factory; The Origins of Virtue; 1984; Ghostwritten; The Dudley Smith Trio; Catch-22; Heart of Darkness; Museum of Doubt; American Skin; The Corrections; To Have and Have Not; Lord of the Flies; Ingenius pain; Dr Faustus; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Our Man in Havana; Cocaine Nights; Brave New World; The Catcher in the Rye; Birdsong; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Slaughter House Five.

Heroes:

Ernest Hemingway; Ernest Trigell; Ernesto Guevara; Lord Byron; Charles Darwin.
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My Blog

Read the First Chapter of BOY A.

H   A is for Apple. A bad apple.   Hes seen noses broken over less: the fag butts on the pavement have been carelessly tossed, five drags left in them. Jack's his name. He chose it himself....
Posted by Jonathan Trigell on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:38:00 PST

Reviews of BOY A

This is my award winning first novel, Boy A, it was featured in FHM; The Independent; Metro; The Big Issue; The New York Times; The Good Book Guide; Entertainment Weekly; The Crack; The Irish Times;...
Posted by Jonathan Trigell on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:37:00 PST