Our Bookshelf
Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
“Immediately after finishing this novel I knew it would haunt me for a long, long time.”
Niall Griffiths, author of Broken Ghosts
Stray Dogs is tense, thrilling, and often harrowing, but peppered with pitch-black humour. Parfitt’s words are hard to shake off or forget.”
Buzz Magazine
“Stray Dogs is a fever dream of a novel.”
Rachel Trezise
“This novel is as fierce, catchy and full of hooks as any of his brilliant songs.”
Jon Langford, The Mekons
"A raw, visceral and hard-hitting read."
Emma Hooper, author of We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky
"Parfitt's blood-soaked fever dream of Toronto teens at the turn of the 80s reads like Taxi Driver turned upside down."
John Williams, author of The Cardiff Trilogy
Stray Dogs
A dark, funny, Quentin Tarantino-esque coming-of-age road story.
Turner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong, and Turner gets into a fight with a biker who gets stabbed in the head. On the run from both Romeo and the Devil’s Children biker Gang, Turner and his pals, Millboy and Frankie, find an abandoned summerhouse in which to hide out. But tensions within the group damage personal relationships as external threats converge to destroy the lives they had.
Richard Parfitt is a musician and academic from Newport in south Wales, most publicly notable for his role as a founding member of 90's rock band The 60ft. Dolls.
- Third Man Books (2023)
Third Man Books
Reviews
“Immediately after finishing this novel I knew it would haunt me for a long, long time.”
Read more reviewsNiall Griffiths, author of Broken Ghosts