my first novel, The Bird Room , published by Canongate Books , is out now.
here are some blurbs:
'Chris Killen's first novel is either disturbingly brilliant or brilliantly disturbing. Whichever, I loved it.' STEVEN HALL , author of The Raw Shark Texts
'The Bird Room is miraculous. It is an astonishingly good debut and Chris Killen has accomplished something rare: he has, in no small way, made the novel new; has done things I've not seen done before. I was gripped from the first page and deeply impressed by the last.' M.J. HYLAND , author of How the Light Gets In and Carry Me Down
'Chris Killen's writing surprised me sometimes and made me think "that is funny" sometimes and I never felt bad reading it because I knew (by reading the sentences) that he had worked hard on being sincere, concise, and interesting.' TAO LIN , author of Eeeee Eee Eeee and Bed
'An extremely engaging combo of sex, melancholy and killer one-liners - The Bird Room is a beautiful Chinese puzzle of a novel.' TOBY LITT , author of Hospital, Ghost Story, etc.
'The Bird Room is amazing. Beautiful, laconic, and chockablock with uneasy sex – like having a threesome with your girlfriend and Richard Brautigan.' RICHARD MILWARD , author of Apples
'Killen has taken a rough stone and polished it into a gem. A book that succeeds in turning daily banality into a thing of great beauty.' EWAN MORRISON , author of The Last Book You Read and Swung
'[A] strangely merry look at the agony of true love and unfaithfulness.' DAZED & CONFUSED
i also sometimes write stupid things on a blog
