Lloyd Jones

Hand Me Down World

by Lloyd Jones

This is the story of a young African mother's journey to reclaim the infant son heartlessly stolen from her. Beginning in Tunisia, where she is employed as a hotel maid, the novel follows her as she makes an...

See How They Run

by Lloyd Jones

Small-minded academic Dr Llwyd Mcnamara has a grant to research Wales' biggest here, rugby star Dylan Manawydan Jones - Big M. But as he plays with USB sticks in his office, the gods have other plans… Lloyd...

Mister Pip

Kiriyama Prize for Fiction 2008, Commonwealth Best Book Prize 2007

by Lloyd Jones

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.

On a...

Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance

by Lloyd Jones

In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step.

Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall...

The Man in the Shed: Selected Stories

by Lloyd Jones

A boy sees his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A husband enters a world imagined by his wife and pretends to be the man she...

Griffith REVIEW Single: Looking Back, a self-portrait: Looking Back, a self-portrait

by Lloyd Jones

Internationally acclaimed award-winning author Lloyd Jones looks back at how rugby shaped his childhood, his worldview and his adult sensibilities. From childhood games in the suburbs of Wellington, to a reverence...