Phi Life Cypher; The Roots; Roots Manuva; Jurassic 5; Nas; Warren G; Fun Lovin' Criminals; Frank Sinatra; The Streets; Bonobo; Dialated Peoples; Bob Dylan; Gil Scott-Heron; Jackson 5; BT; Barry White; Tim Minchin; Gorillaz; The Soul Rats; MC Solar; Kanye West; Donovan; Stevie Wonder.
Movies
Rumblefish; Ice Cold in Alex; American Beauty; Mystic River; Magnolia; The Blizzard of Aahhh's; The Deer Hunter; The Claim; Tess; Casablanca; Intermission; Fargo; The Good the Bad and the Ugly; Sideways; Natural Born Killers; On The Waterfront; Sin City; Nikita; Frankenstein; Bitter Moon; LA Confidential; The Tragedy of MacBeth; The English Patient; La Haine; Unforgiven; The Warriors; Summer of Sam; Man Bites Dog; Death and the Maiden; Man On Fire; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Chinatown; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Scarface; True Romance; Cape Fear; Strictly Sinatra; The Seven Samurai; Monster's Ball; Bowling for Columbine; American Graffiti; The Wild Bunch; Taxi Driver; Baise Moi; The Long Good Friday; The Big Lebowski; Brazil; Get Carter; The Usual Suspects; Cool Hand Luke; Boy A.
Television
Rots your teeth and gives you brain damage. Though The Simpsons and Ray Mears are pretty spot on and the Croc Hunter will be missed.
Books
Rabbit Run et al, John Updike; Don Juan, Byron; Nausea, Sartre; Moby Dick, Melville; Friction, Joe Stretch; Boyhood, Coetzee; Lobster Guillaume Lecasble; The Loudest Sound and Nothing, Clare Wigfall; Bight Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney; The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen; The Wall, Sartre; Pilgermann, Russel Hoban; Waterland, Graham Swift; Isle of Dogs, Daniel Davies; Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thomson; Snow, Orphan Pamuk; Ingenious Pain, Andrew Miller; Falling Man, Don Delillo; Girls, Nic Kelman; The Woman and the Ape, Peter Hoeg; American Pastoral, Phillip Roth; American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis; American Skin, Ken Bruen; Choke, Chuck Palahniuk; La Chute, Albert Camus; The Old Testament(for the sex and violence), various authors; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy; The Watchmen, Alan Moore; The Kingdom of the Wicked, Anthony Burgess; King Lear (yes, it's a play, but I've got the book), Shakey; Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared M. Diamond; Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs; Saturday, Ian McEwan; The Wasp Factory, Ian Banks; The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley; 1984, Orwell; Ghostwritten, David Mitchell; The Dudley Smith Trio, James Ellroy; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; Heart of Darkness, Joesph Conrad; Museum of Doubt, James Meek; To Have and Have Not, Hemingway; Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach; Lord of the Flies, William Golding; Dr Faustus, Kit Marlowe; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson; Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American and Brighton Rock, Graham Greene; Cocaine Nights, Ballard; Brave New World, Huxley; The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger; Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks; The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde; Small Gods, Terry Pratchett; Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut; Perfume, Patrick Suskind; A Moveable Feast, Hemingway; Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler; Blood Kin, Ceridwen Dovey.
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About me:
I'm a British writer who now lives in Chamonix Mont Blanc, in the French Alps. My triple award winning first novel is called 'Boy A', published by Serpent's Tail in English and translated into many other languages. My second novel 'Cham' has just been published.
Click here to see a book style - easy on the eye and very economical to print - version of the opening of Boy A to read at your leisure
Now Boy A has been turned into a film by The Weinstein Co. and Film 4; directed by John Crowley and starring Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan and Katie Lyons. It won a total of four Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television) Awards in 2008, including Best Actor for Andrew. You can watch a trailer for the film of Boy A and hear me talk about it below and also see a reading from the opening of my new novel ‘Cham’ shot at some of the locations in Chamonix used in the book.
'Boy A' won the Waverton Award for best first novel of 2004; the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, for best book in the commonwealth by an author under 35; and The World Book Day Prize for the most discussion worthy novel by a living writer.
Sarah Waters, chief judge of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize described it as:
"A compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas." I am now working on number three, provisionally entitled 'Genesis'.
Andy Briggs is being interviewed on BLOG TALK RADIO about the launch of his two upcoming books!
Check out: www. blogtalkradio. com
on Sunday 9pm GMT - click on the LSPC Reviews show on the home page!
"Unconventional is a wonderful story full of heart, humor, and what it means to truly be successful. An A+ novel for the keeper shelf. " - Gemma Halliday, award-winning author
Massive thanks if you were one of the friends who voted for me. Boy A, my first novel, has now made the short list of 10 for World Book Day’s ‘Book To Talk About 2008.’ I owe a lot to my friends.
Unfortunately all the novels starts the final from scratch, so I really need your support all over again.
Please take a minute to vote. It might very well be possible to win it now.
And you can still win stuff just by voting, as well as being kind and thus gaining an instant karma rebate.
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You can login with the same username and password as before to vote, or register again; or if it’s for the first time, it honestly only takes 1 minute: Just click ‘register’ then click ‘see the books’ and scroll down until you see my novel 'Boy A' and click ‘vote for this book’, they appear in random order.
