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LLEWELLYN, DAVID

David was born in 1978 and grew up in Pontypool. He graduated from Dartington College of Arts in 2000 and now lives in Cardiff. David has had short stories published online, and has written some comedy sketches for the BBC. He collaborated on a feature–length film script ’Somewhere’, performed live at the Cardiff Screen Festival in 2003. Eleven (Seren, 2006) is his first novel. David is a Member of Academi.

Reviews:

"…Llewellyn’s novel is a funny, disturbing view of a disaffected age…"
Nicholas Clee, The Guardian


Selected Publications:
Eleven (Seren, 2006)
Everything Is Sinister (Seren, 2008)

Eleven (Seren, 2006)

In Cardiff’s offices and call centres the twenty-something white collar workers of the new sweatshops email each other with work issues, jokes, arrangements for their social lives, gossip and the products of sheer boredom. As the day passes, would-be author Martin conducts this correspondence and saves in Drafts a variety of emails to himself – a commentary on his life.

Martin is tired of customer services, in denial over breaking up with his girlfriend, worried about ‘that incident’ in London, and baffled by the triviality of his life and those of his drinking, recreational drug-taking friends. What is the plot he’s supposed to be following? How has it come to this? When on this  day, 11th September, 2001, people fly airliners into buildings, Martin knows he’s reached a critical point in his life. He sends his final email…

Told entirely through emails, part The Office, part Beckett, Eleven is a striking debut novel: smart, funny, brutally sad, and a genuine response to 21st century society in the UK and beyond.

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