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Haydn Wilks

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Born

in Caerphilly, The United Kingdom

September 01, 1987

Website

http://www.deadbirdpress.com/haydn-wilks

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Transgressive Fiction

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Ryu Murakami, Bret Easton Ellis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jack Kerouac, Char ...more

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The Welsh Irvine Welsh. The ginger Jack Kerouac.
The broke Bret Easton Ellis.
The Sartre of the South Wales Valleys.
A cynical millennial author from Wales whose immense literary talent is only outsized by his overwhelming sense of entitlement.

HAYDN WILKS’ novels include the infanticidal indictment of low-wage late capitalist UK call centers COLD CALLING, the drug-guzzling cryptocurrency-fuelled global sex crime spree of MOON BOYS (a.k.a. $HITCOIN), and the self-aggrandizing / self-loathing gonzo autofictional lockdown novel HIRAETH.

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	The Death of Danny Daggers 3.52 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Americosis Vol. I (Americosis, #1) 3.07 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	$hitcoin 3.36 avg rating — 96 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Calling 3.33 avg rating — 82 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HIRAETH. 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Americosis Vol. 2 (Americosis, #2) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurgent Cineribus (Americosis, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Americosis Vol. 4 (Americosis, #4) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Moon Boys: a cryptocurrency powered techno thriller filled with decadence, depravity, & betrayal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Every Book Mentioned in HIRAETH. - the existential moron's lockdown novel

My new novel HIRAETH. is an autofictional account of the pandemic. This list contains the many books I obsessed over during the writing process and made explicit references to in HIRAETH.'s many many pages.

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The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

The Rules of Attraction

Read by The Main Character in the opening chapter, a hedonistic sprint through South-East Asia just before the pandemic hits in January 2020. The frentic Eurotrip c Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 12, 2023 04:33 • Tags: autofiction, existential-fiction, hiraeth, lockdown-novel, pandemic-fiction, psychological-fiction, transgressive-fiction

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“Ji Eun sat and sifted through the nuggets of Rory's narrative that she'd been able to understand, trying to piece them together into some coherent whole.”
― Haydn Wilks, The Death of Danny Daggers

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“Laws become suggestions when you have enough money.”
― Haydn Wilks, $hitcoin.

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“The stupidity of the statement, the madness of the situation, incenses Libby; she's driving hard, and trying to comprehend the Savior's nonsense, and it occurs to her, for the first time since she entered Hank's ranch two weeks ago, It's all just bullshit, all of it, all life, all just nonsense and noise...”
― Haydn Wilks, Americosis Vol. 2

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“Right now, it's possible to do things that haven't been allowed on Wall Street since the Great Depression.”
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“Laws become suggestions when you have enough money.”
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“He said, “WHY DON’T YOU EAT MEAT, PRIVATE? ARE YOU RICH?” He talked like a Chicano Macho Man Randy Savage. I said I wasn’t rich. He said, “I SAW A SHOW ON TV. IT SAID THAT PEOPLE WHO DON’T EAT MEAT HAVE WEAK MINDS. THEY ARE EASY TO BRAINWASH. THAT MEANS THAT YOU ARE EASY TO BRAINWASH.” “YES, DRILL SERGEANT.”
― Nico Walker, Cherry

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“I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

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“No one beats me, no one starves me, no one spits on me. How can I regard myself as a victim of prosecution when my sufferings are so petty? Yet they are all the more degrading for their pettiness.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

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