Occupation Writer Role Novelist Nationality English Education Central Saint Martins | Name Richard Milward | |
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Genre Novel, play, short story Books Kimberly's Capital Punishment, Ten Storey Love Song, Apples, Wimbledon Past, Triumph Over Tragedy | ||
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Richard Milward (born 26 October 1984) is an English novelist. His debut novel Apples was published by Faber and Faber in 2007. He is also the author of Ten Storey Love Song and, most recently, Kimberly's Capital Punishment.
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- Loops richard milward reading from drugby union waterstone s
- Richard Milward reads from his book Apples
- Apples
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He was raised in Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland and educated at Laurence Jackson School and Prior Pursglove College. He studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. He cites Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh as the book that made him want to write and Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan and Hunter S. Thompson as his main influences. As with fellow Teesside-raised writer Michael Smith, he wrote a column for Dazed & Confused magazine.
Richard Milward reads from his book 'Apples'
Apples
Milward's debut novel is an account of teenage life on a Middlesbrough housing estate. It is narrated in the first person by several characters (including a butterfly), but mainly by Adam and Eve, two school students. Adam is a shy, ungainly youth with obsessive compulsive disorder, a love of The Beatles, and a violent father. He believes himself to be in love with Eve, who is an attractive and promiscuous hard-drinker and drug user.
