Editions

Sheepshagger

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099285182

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 192g

  • RRP: £9.99

Sheepshagger

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099285182

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 192g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • The plotting of the novel is cunning, the performance immaculate... The management and pacing of this material are masterly... He has produced a vital, driven and necessary book

    Iain Sinclair, Independent on Sunday

  • Niall Griffiths is in complete command of his material... A hymn both ancient and modern to place and to unsentimental belonging

    Independent

  • A powerful blend of expletive-ridden dialogue and passages of beautiful prose- quite brilliant

    The Times

  • A fabulous piece of writing... One of the new millennium's most striking novels to date

    Time Out

  • The power of Griffiths's language is astounding, steeped in the wild forces of nature that have helped make Ianto what he is, by turns lyrically beautiful and tumultuously violent

    The Times

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About the Author

Niall Griffiths

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales. He has published seven previous novels: Grits, Sheepshagger, Kelly + Victor, Stump, Wreckage, Runt and A Great Big Shining Star.

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