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John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He has written for The Times, Independent, Word and FHM among other publications. He is also the author of the novella Music from Big Pink and the novel Kill Your Friends.
Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction
Novels
The Amateurs (2009)
The Second Coming (2011)
Cold Hands (2012)
Straight White Male (2013)
The Sunshine Cruise Company (2014)
No Good Deed (2017)
The F*ck-it List (2019)
The Second Coming (2011)
Cold Hands (2012)
Straight White Male (2013)
The Sunshine Cruise Company (2014)
No Good Deed (2017)
The F*ck-it List (2019)
Collections
24 Stories of Hope (2018) (with Chris Brookmyre, Daisy Buchanan, Barney Farmer, Mike Gayle, A L Kennedy, Pauline Melville, Nina Stibbe, Meera Syal, Zoe Venditozzi, Irvine Welsh and Murray Lachlan Young)
Novellas
Awards
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John Niven recommends
The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas (2015)
(Disco Days, book 2)
David F Ross
"Simply brilliant."
Darke (2017)
(James Darke, book 1)
Rick Gekoski
"Staggeringly accomplished. Heartbreakingly true. A shockingly monumental first novel."
Bloody January (2017)
(Harry McCoy, book 1)
Alan Parks
"A brilliant debut. Taut, violent and as close you'll get to 1970s Glasgow without a tardis."
The Ruins (2020)
Mat Osman
"Fantastic debut novel. Magical, surreal, disturbing. Reminded me in places of early Iain Banks and DBC Pierre."
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