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Ten Pound Pom (Paperback)
Niall Griffiths
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R269
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Discovery Miles 2 460
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In 1976, 10-year-old Niall Griffiths and his family immigrated to
Australia from Liverpool as part of the Ten Pound Pom, an assisted
passage plan designed to increase the population of Australia and
supply workers for its booming industries. Following three years of
residence, the family moved coast-to-coast, from Brisbane to Perth,
traveling more than 2,000 miles in a souped-up station wagon.
Thirty years later, Griffiths returned to retrace his steps,
chronicling the journey in this part memoir, part travelogue.
WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL This outstanding novel tells of
one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full
moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to
their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their
innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.
One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most significant and
brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that
deserves rediscovery.
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Of Talons and Teeth
Niall Griffiths
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Discovery Miles 3 150
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An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as
human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Wales, a
mining village, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and
squalor, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist
impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born.
Sion, a metalworker, strikes up an illicit relationship with
Katherine, the wife of the mineowner's personal dogsbody. And so
begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human
love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and
negation of that very thing. A mix of political anger, historical
excavation, Celtic mysticism, praise of the human impulse to love
and rage at avarice and exploitation, Of Talons and Teeth seeks to
explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties
around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the
only god worth worshipping.
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Broken Ghost (Paperback)
Niall Griffiths
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Discovery Miles 2 320
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**WINNER OF THE 2020 WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD** 'A
magnificently gifted writer' Irvine Welsh A Welsh community
witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating
over a ridge. Is it a collective hallucination, a meteorological
phenomenon, or something supernatural? The individuals living in
these mountains are already battling their own demons - of drink,
drugs, domestic violence, depression - how could an apparition
unite these crushed people or their fragmented country? This is a
novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the
forgotten. An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to
live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where
individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised
and exploited. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and
deeply moving, it is written in a charged language that is
vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once. Broken Ghost is a
howl of anguish and a summoning of gods. 'Combines myth, drug
culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's
also a call to arms' New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Griffiths
has forged a chimerical piece of radical fiction, a Blake-like
reverie on the possibility (or not) of spiritual regeneration in
our time.' Guardian 'This is a book powered along with ferocious
momentum by the raw nervous energy of its characters, whose
demotic, alternating narratives seem to muscle bodily off the
page.' Daily Mail
A new book in the Diamond series.
Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his lurid and strange imagination into unspeakable savagery - embodying our most primal fears of physical threat, a world beyond our control.
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