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John Niven


Born
in Irvine, Ayrshire, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1968


Born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Niven read English Literature at Glasgow University, graduating in 1991 with First Class honours. For the next ten years, he worked for a variety of record companies, including London Records and Independiente. He left the music industry to write full time in 2002 and published his debut novella Music from Big Pink in 2005 (Continuum Press). The novella was optioned for the screen by CC Films with a script has been written by English playwright Jez Butterworth. Niven's breakthrough novel Kill Your Friends is a satire of the music business, based on his brief career in A&R, during which he passed up the chance to sign Coldplay and Muse. The novel was published by William Heinemann in 2008 and achieved much acclaim, ...more

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Kill Your Friends

3.79 avg rating — 11,154 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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The Second Coming

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Straight White Male

3.87 avg rating — 4,155 ratings — published 2013 — 29 editions
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Le solite sospette

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The Amateurs

4.11 avg rating — 2,966 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions
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The F*ck-it List: Is this t...

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Kill 'Em All

4.07 avg rating — 1,958 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions
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O Brother

4.56 avg rating — 1,512 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions
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No Good Deed

3.75 avg rating — 1,839 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions
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Cold Hands

3.78 avg rating — 1,269 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions
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“Yeah, beware the small man... Always beware the small man. He'll fuck you every time. Because they never forget, do they? All that grief they got at school. Over and over, and for the rest of their miserable short-arsed lives, someone's got to pay.”
John Niven, Kill Your Friends

“Here’s the important thing to say about meetings – nothing important ever got decided in a meeting. The place to get your own way is over lunch, in someone’s office, in the corridor, over drinks, dinner, anywhere but in a fucking meeting. What meetings are very good for, however, is stitching people up – undermining, belittling and humiliating them.”
John Niven, Kill Your Friends

“Cosa cazzo c'era da interpretare in «FATE I BRAVI»?”
John Niven, The Second Coming

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