Any Kind of Broken Man: Collected Stories

A veteran of the war with Japan confronts the Japanese factory which has revivified his valley. An ageing Navajo on the edge of the desert meets his doctor son’s white bride. A young jazz musician walks into a club with a pistol in his pocket, and a young criminal from the valleys who is suspected of murder finds peace of mind on a Scottish beach.

Grounded in the post-industrial communities of Wales, yet encompassing Spain, Malaysia and the Florida Keys, this collection spans the career of a prominent novelist from the early 1990s to the present day. Drug dealers, labourers, invalids and war criminals confront the start of a new century, the death of old certainties and old ways of life, the comforting weight of bitterness and the fearful beginnings of hope.

‘Roger Granelli’s books are incredibly hard to put down.’

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‘Granelli has a gift for making characters emerge, for letting actions speak for themselves.'

New Welsh Review

‘authentic dialogue and acutely observed and recreated senses of place… help me understand and empathise with the predicaments of the lives of others’

Jane Fraser, Nation Cymru

About the Author

Roger Granelli was born and bred in Wales, and educated at the University of Warwick and Cardiff University. He is a writer, a professional musician, and a landscape photo­grapher.

He has published a novella and ten novels in various genres and styles, including the Palermo stories, depicting organised crime, and the Mark Richards trilogy, featuring a petty criminal turned private eye. His first novel, Crystal Spirit, was set in the Welsh Valleys and Spain during the civil war. He has won three writing awards for his work, and contributed numerous short stories to magazines and radio. His collected stories, Any Kind of Broken Man, with a foreword by Phil Rickman, were published by Cockatrice Books in 2022, and were followed by a new novel, River of Hope, exploring personal and colonial relationships in Gabon between the wars at Albert Schweitzer’s hospital.

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