Genus

Confirm(s) the promise of Trigell’s splendid debut, Boy A. - Daily Mail

No one can fault Trigell’s ingenuity. - Times Literary Supplement

Confirm(s) the promise of Trigell’s splendid debut, Boy A. - Daily Mail

No one can fault Trigell’s ingenuity. - Times Literary Supplement

Trigell doesn’t pretend to have any easy answers, only further and more complicated questions. Is genetic perfection a welcome goal? Are humans meant to be free from pain, illness and suffering? Who and what, exactly, defines a disability? - The Independent

Trigell’s dystopian divided Britain is epically hellish, rendered through the voices of a procession of characters in a heightened prose that intensifies the sense of a decayed, degenerate world about to implode. Although it is science fiction, the world of Genus - where those who can afford it have their children modified before birth - feels as if it might be just around the corner. - Metro

It is an old saying among science fiction fans that anyone can predict the car, it takes brains to predict gridlock. It is not the gadget that takes foresight, it is the uses people will make of it, and then the unintended consequences of those uses… No one can fault Trigell’s ingenuity - The Times

Like Trigell’s powerful debut, ‘Boy A’, a sharp analysis of society underpins this novel. Despite being set in the future, or perhaps because of it, Genus is a blazingly good contemporary novel. - Good Reads

Jonathan Trigell was born in Hertfordshire in 1974. In 2002 he took an MA in creative writing at Manchester University; Boy A, his first novel, was his thesis for that course.

Boy A won the Waverton Award for best first novel of 2004; the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, for best book in the Commonwealth by an author under 35; and the inaugural World Book Day Prize, for the most discussion worthy novel by a living writer. Boy A was turned into a film directed by John Crowley and starring Andrew Garfield and Peter Mullan. It won a total of four Bafta Awards in 2008; the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the Jury and Public Prizes at the Dinard Film Festival.

His second novel, Cham, was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. It is set in the death-sport capital of the world - Chamonix Mont Blanc, in France - where the author himself now lives, pursuing his passion for the mountains. Cham is currently being worked on by a UK production company. Jonathan is currently researching his next novel, provisionally entitled Tarsus.