cybermule | Books - Stump, Niall Griffiths

I think the author was recommended to me recently by Serpentskiss (who I'm not sure is on here anyway). So I added a few of Griffiths' novels to my interlibrary loan list, and this one came up first. I liked it - as a story of a man who runs away from the Scouse mob to Wales with one newly missing arm, it's both funny and dark. Griffiths is compared to Cormack McCarthy a lot, which I didn't really see. To me, it was a cross between the regional humour and punchy plot of Irvine Welsh, together with the mad place-rooted bombast of Iain Sinclair.

One thing that really made it for me was that Griffiths has a deep sense of nature in his writing, and that gave the already good book a sense of depth.

Like I said, inter library loan, but I can recommend.