Wreckage

'You often hear writers being praised for being "ambitious", and it's frequently an empty compliment. Here, I don't think it is. This is an ambitious novel. It is trying to do something difficult, where the penalties for failure are high. Its modes are comic and apocalyptic; its language ranges from energised scally backchat to a prophetic, nearly biblical voice of hallucinatory intensity. This is brave stuff. You risk bathos; you risk pretension... We're in the same stylistic ball park as James Joyce - indeed, Griffiths even has the gall to adapt, with a wink, "falling, softly falling" from "The Dead". You have to be bloody good to get away with this stuff. Griffiths is... It is arresting, and it is terrifying, and it is thoroughly accomplished.' Sam Leith, Telegraph

'A powerful piece of writing...A tragicomic lament for the generations of rejects and hopefuls who fetched up in the erstwhile "muddy pool" of Liverpool'

Guardian

'Exhilarating...It pulses with sincere and bracing anger'

Times Literary Supplement

'The rawness and vitality that have been present in Griffith writing...make him more than able to present this material unflinchingly and powerfully. Red in tooth and claw, Wreckage makes bleak but compelling reading'

Glasgow Herald