This is a great addition to this author's output, a novel that follows the latest escapades of several characters from his earlier works, Human Punk, White Trash, and Skinheads.
Lots of music and relevant social issues are here and as ever the writing is great. Bursting with cultural references, it’s a working class classic set in the satellite towns of West London.
This book, with its 80s soundtrack throughout, is a murder mystery set in the filmic hills of Los Angeles.
A killer is stalking the streets, mansions, and nightclubs, leaving a trail of youthful bodies across a nostalgic la-la land. Ostensibly a true story experienced by the author himself, the story is well paced and thrillingly told. Overall I found it a highly addictive read. It’s a lengthy book but I actually wanted more.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city
“A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with a stylish scary new story that doesn't disappoint.” –Town & Country
Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set…
This is Niven’s first non-fiction book, a memoir that revolves around the memory and suicide of his brother.
As Niven succeeds in life, going from university to a touring band and onto a lucrative position in the music industry, his black sheep brother dabbles in drug dealing and petty crime, and ends up chronically broke and depressed.
There’s lots of music running through this coming-of-age tale, from punk and indie to rave, but when the party ends the hangover is harsh. It’s a poignant tale of the quiet epidemic of male suicide, and the final chapter written in his brother’s voice as he takes his own life is as compelling as it is disturbing.
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURNS PRIZE A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 AN iNEWS BEST BOOK TO GIFT
John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle against the world, he took his own life at the age of 42.
Hoping for the best while often witnessing the worst, John, his younger sister Linda and their mother, Jeanette, saw the darkest fears they had for Gary played out in drug deals, prison and bankruptcy. While his life spiralled downward and the love the…
This powerful collection of stories takes you to London's drinking dens, backstreets, and shadowy housing estates where coppers, criminals, and the plain hard-done-by are faced with all life can throw at them. Brutal, uncompromising, at times blackly funny, Smiler with Knife is a gripping tour through the urban jungle and the shadier quarters of the human condition.
