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Jonathan Trigell

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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 has been nominated for SEVEN Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television) Awards. You can watch a clip from 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'.

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 reviews of my first novel 'BOY A' and my second book ‘CHAM’ in my blog.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, Riders, Readers & anyone else who loves stories, mountains & life.
Click Here to get Boy A from Amazon!

Click Here to get Boy A from Amazon!

Music:

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; The Soul Rats; MC Solar; Kanye West; Donovan; Stevie Wonder.

Movies:

Rumblefish; Ice Cold in Alex; American Beauty; Mystic River; Magnolia; The Blizzard of Aahhh's; The Deer Hunter; The Claim; Tess; Casablanca; Intermission; Fargo; The Good the Bad and the Ugly; Sideways; Natural Born Killers; On The Waterfront; Sin City; Nikita; Frankenstein; Bitter Moon; LA Confidential; The Tragedy of MacBeth; The English Patient; La Haine; Unforgiven; The Warriors; Summer of Sam; Man Bites Dog; Death and the Maiden; Man On Fire; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Chinatown; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Scarface; True Romance; Cape Fear; Strictly Sinatra; The Seven Samurai; Monster's Ball; Bowling for Columbine; American Graffiti; The Wild Bunch; Taxi Driver; Baise Moi; The Long Good Friday; The Big Lebowski; Brazil; Get Carter; The Usual Suspects; Cool Hand Luke; Boy A.

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:

Rabbit Run et al, John Updike; Don Juan, Byron; Nausea, Sartre; Moby Dick, Melville; Friction, Joe Stretch; Boyhood, Coetzee; Lobster Guillaume Lecasble; The Loudest Sound and Nothing, Clare Wigfall; Bight Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney; The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen; The Wall, Sartre; Pilgermann, Russel Hoban; Waterland, Graham Swift; Isle of Dogs, Daniel Davies; Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thomson; Snow, Orphan Pamuk; Ingenious Pain, Andrew Miller; Falling Man, Don Delillo; Girls, Nic Kelman; The Woman and the Ape, Peter Hoeg; American Pastoral, Phillip Roth; American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis; American Skin, Ken Bruen; Choke, Chuck Palahniuk; La Chute, Albert Camus; The Old Testament(for the sex and violence), various authors; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy; The Watchmen, Alan Moore; The Kingdom of the Wicked, Anthony Burgess; King Lear (yes, it's a play, but I've got the book), Shakey; Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared M. Diamond; Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs; Saturday, Ian McEwan; The Wasp Factory, Ian Banks; The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley; 1984, Orwell; Ghostwritten, David Mitchell; The Dudley Smith Trio, James Ellroy; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; Heart of Darkness, Joesph Conrad; Museum of Doubt, James Meek; To Have and Have Not, Hemingway; Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach; Lord of the Flies, William Golding; Dr Faustus, Kit Marlowe; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson; Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American and Brighton Rock, Graham Greene; Cocaine Nights, Ballard; Brave New World, Huxley; The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger; Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks; The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde; Small Gods, Terry Pratchett; Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut; Perfume, Patrick Suskind; A Moveable Feast, Hemingway; Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler; Blood Kin, Ceridwen Dovey.

Heroes:

Ernest Hemingway; Ernest Trigell; Ernesto Guevara; Lord Byron; Charles Darwin.
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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 Jonathan Trigell on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

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 Jonathan Trigell on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:41:00 PST

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 Jonathan Trigell on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:40:00 PST

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 Jonathan Trigell on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:40:00 PST