Born in East Sussex in 1970, David L Hayles lives in London. He is the author of The Suicide Kit.
Imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected adapted for the screen by Tarantino and you're pretty much there -- Laurence Phelan Independent on Sunday Genuinely excellent The Sun Sussex writer Hayles has a dark, skewed outlook on the world and combined with a fiendish sense of humour, it makes these stories well worth the time Glasgow Herald Hayles nails wildly different voices with a few short strokes, then washes it all down with a flagon of treacly black humour Arena Hunter S Thompson would have loved these tales. Beautifully weird and told in deceptively simple prose Daily Express