Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales. He has published six other novels- Grits, Sheepshagger, Stump, Wreckage, Runt and A Great Big Shining Star. The film of Kelly + Victor was released to critical acclaim in 2012.
The range of Griffiths’s achievement is as exhilarating as the reach of his ambition * Guardian * Kelly + Victor is a book breathing at the limits of experience, its protagonists martyrs to feeling in a world gone numb * Independent * With Kelly + Victor Griffiths has completed his transition into a literary voice for the 21st century * The Scotsman *