Ray French's latest novel "Going Under" is out now ‘Going Under is a warm, big-hearted tale with a hero you can’t help but cheer for. This novel hits on various truths about work, family, love and loyalty. But most of all, it’s a thoroughly absorbing read’ – Matt Haig "incorporates all the elements of a funny, Full Monty-ish parable about a little man's war against the system,...easy to imagine it given screen treatment" Latest work included in Four Fathers  'A fascinating double-take on the experience of being fathered and then becoming a father yourself - eight short tales full of wit, pathos and insight.' – Blake Morrison |
This is the site for Ray French, author of Going Under, All This Is Mine, and The Red Jag and other stories. You can read my regularly updated diary and favourite quotations, extracts from both books, reviews, and essays
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"All This Is Mine" 
"The Red Jag" |
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'One of the very few writers who can remember precisely what childhood was really like, how crazy and intense it really was. Utterly unpretentious, totally engaging and very funny.' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time |
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'At long last, Wales might just have an author who can do for our indigenous literature what Roddy Doyle did for Irish writing - fuse heritage and hilarity in a thoroughly modern but utterly true voice' |
