Runt

[It has a] visionary simplicity and mythic sense of place

Caroline McGinn, Times Literary Supplement

The writing leaps off the page...it throws up something so original and striking that it takes up permanent residence in a reader's head

Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph

Niall Griffiths is unrivalled as the literary voice of contemporary Wales... He mixes gritty realism with myth, poetry and regular doses of bone-cracking violence

Jonathan Gibbs, Metro

The troubled teenager's tall tale spills out in a syntax-defying stream of consciousness that is at once liltingly innocent yet seeded with profundity

Sunday Times

Evolutionary psychology meets mythology in this short, strange, savage novel... Niall Griffiths's prose enchants you

Guardian

You would have to go back to Thomas Hardy to find a British writer who evokes a landscape so completely

Time Out

Runt deserves the hackneyed description 'tour de force' ... it demonstrates Griffiths, a gritty realist, in complete command of the dark despairing gloop that so often smothers human lives

Tom Adair, Scotsman

Runt is a bungee-jump plummet from modern sophistication into something lurking below, where fantasy takes flesh and ancient knowledge prevails

Jennie Renton, Sunday Herald

Griffiths excels in exuberant and experimental portraits of marginals. He does not disappoint with this linguistically inventive portrait

Financial Times

As ever with Griffiths, this is bleak and violent, sometimes bitterly political stuff peppered with absurdly funny moments

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