The Writers of Wales Database

RHODES, DAN

Website: www.danrhodes.co.uk

Dan was born in 1972 and raised in Devon. He studied for a MA in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. His debut Anthropology and a Hundred Other (Stories, 2000), is a collection of 101 stories, all 101 words in length, written from a male perspective. It was included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists List in 2003 and short-listed for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award. Dan now lives in Edinburgh. The Little White Car (Canongate Books, 2004) has been adapted for the silver screen by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade – the writers of, among many other things, Casino Royale. His Gold (Canongate Books, 2007) was nominated for the ‘Books to be talked about 2009’ award by the World Book Day team. In 2010, Dan won the E.M. Forster Award

Reviews:
"…Rhodes’s fans already know about his skill with character, his brilliant sense of humour and ability to pull the rug from under the reader at just the right moment, but Gold is an even more emotionally powerful read than anything he’s written before. This tale of a Japanese woman struggling to find her place in a small Welsh community is Rhodes at his very best, and that’s as good as it gets…"
Matt Thorne

"…Very clever and very funny, Gold goes straight to the heart. Dan Rhodes is a true original, with a fresh, funny, quirky style that seems to owe nothing to other writers, and everything to his own powers of invention…"
Hilary Mantel


Selected Publications:
Anthropology and a Hundred Other (Stories, 2000)
Don’t Tell Me The Truth About Love (Fourth Estate, 2000)
Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate Books, 2003)
The Little White Car (Canongate Books, 2004)
Gold (Canongate Books, 2007)
Little Hands Clapping (Canongate Books, 2010) 



Gold (Canongate Books, 2007) 

Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and instant food, has been taking a holiday to the same seaside town for eight years. She is made to feel at home, at least during pub-quiz nights, when Short Mr Hughes, Tall Mr Hughes and Mr Puw are especially glad to recruit Miyuki and her trivia prowess to their team.

This year, following an act of raw creativity involving some cans of gold spraypaint, Miyuki will take part in the most turbulent events the village has seen since Tall Mr Hughes returned from the pub toilets without remembering to button up.

Tear-inducingly funny, fond and unputdownable, Gold is a novel about love and belonging.

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