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March 2014
ENGLISH READING CLUB
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RICHARD MILWARD Apples
RICHARD MILWARD (26 October 1984, Middlesbrough, England)
------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY Richard Milward was born on 26 October 1984 in Middlesbrough, England. In April 2007, his debut novel Apples (Faber) was published when Richard was the tender age of twenty-two, to great critical acclaim. Northern Stage/Company of Angels produced Apples for the stage in 2010, touring it extensively in the UK. Richard's second novel, Ten Storey Love Song (Faber), was released in the UK in February 2009, receiving accolades from such folk as Irvine Welsh ('a major talent') and Lauren Laverne ('astounding'). His third novel, Kimberly's Capital Punishment, was published in August 2012. To date, Richard's books have been translated into nine different languages (Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish). Richard's writing (both fiction and non fiction) has appeared in The Face, Dazed & Confused, The Guardian, The Independent, Arena, .Cent, Vice, The Quietus, Loops, Le Gun, Bare Bones, It's Nice That, Middlesbrough FC fanzine Fly Me To The Moon and others. He has also written catalogue essays for various artists: Damien Hirst, legendary music photographer Kevin Cummins, artist Johannes Albers, illustrator Neal Fox, as well as the liner notes for the Azusa Plane retrospective, Where the Sands Turn to Gold.. In 2010, Richard guest-edited the Autumn/Winter edition of .Cent magazine: 'The Intoxication Issue', with contributions from DBC Pierre, Animal Collective, Faust, etc. In June 2008, Richard graduated from Byam Shaw at Central St Martins College of Art and Design with a 2:1 degree in Fine Art. He has exhibited his psychedelic, slapdash artwork at Waterstone's bookshops across the UK; Galerie Quartair in The Hague, Netherlands; The Social and The Amuti Gallery in London. Richard currently lives in Middlesbrough but often strays from the Infant Hercules to read his novels up and down the UK, frequently performing with something colourful attached to his cranium. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Teesside University.
----------------------------------SELECTED WORKS
Novels ♦ Apples, 2007. ♦ Ten Storey Love Song, 2009. ♦ Kimberly's Capital Punishment, 2012.
Short stories The Grand Mal, 2008. Matty's Hallmark Tourette's, 2011 Love is like jazz/you make it up as you go along, 2012. The Gongs, 2012.
-----------------------------------------------------Apples
(2007)
As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drugfuelled discos and cheap plonk. She barely has time to notice Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve. While contending with sexual frustration, a violent father and increasingly compulsive behaviour, is he too busy reading Razzle in the attic to make his move? Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve, alongside a cast of delinquents, perverts and butterflies, Apples is an exploration of the difficulties of growing up and of getting 'fucked as quick as you can'.