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Jonathan Trigell

About Me


I'm a British writer who now lives in Chamonix Mont Blanc, in the French Alps. My triple award winning first novel is called 'Boy A', published by Serpent's Tail in English and translated into many other languages. My second novel 'Cham' has just been published.
Click here to see a book style - easy on the eye and very economical to print - version of the opening of Boy A to read at your leisureNow Boy A has been turned into a film by The Weinstein Co. and Film 4; directed by John Crowley and starring Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan and Katie Lyons. It won a total of four Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television) Awards in 2008, including Best Actor for Andrew. You can watch a trailer for the film of Boy A and hear me talk about it below and also see a reading from the opening of my new novel ‘Cham’ shot at some of the locations in Chamonix used in the book.Here You Can Read Review Quotes of CHAM or Buy It with Free International Delivery
Click Here to get Boy A or CHAM from Amazon!
Buy BOY A delivered worldwide for free... Read the First Chapter in my Blog
'Boy A' won the Waverton Award for best first novel of 2004; the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, for best book in the commonwealth by an author under 35; and The World Book Day Prize for the most discussion worthy novel by a living writer.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." I am now working on number three, provisionally entitled 'Genesis'.

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Click Here to get Boy A from Amazon!

Click Here to get Boy A from Amazon!

My Blog

Newspaper Review Quotes for Boy A

    Although it’s told with extraordinary restraint, the story of Jack’s life unfolds with a gathering horror that invites as much compassion as revulsion and leaves the read...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:33:00 GMT

First Chapter of BOY A

    A is for Apple. A bad apple.   He’s seen noses broken over less: the fag butts on the pavement have been carelessly tossed, five drags left in them.    ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:31:00 GMT

Newspaper Review Quotes for Cham

    At the other end of the spectrum are those writers who have literary ideals but - almost in an act of defiance against some of their peers - still manage to entertain their readers w...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:31:00 GMT

CHAM, the opening.

  "Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don’t know any other stipend annexed to it."   Byron     ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:30:00 GMT