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Scream If You Want to Go Faster

(Windmill Books, 2012)


Hull Fair, October 2007. A city still drowning in the aftermath of summer floodwater prepares to wave farewell to Europe's biggest travelling carnival. 

As the big wheel turns above and the sky comes alive with noise and colour, ten ordinary lives are brought together over a single weekend in the rain-soaked city below. Perfectly capturing the frenetic pace, heartbreaking poignancy and simmering aggression of modern urban life, Scream if You Want to Go Faster is a dark, funny and abrasive novel from a stunning new voice in British fiction.

Swear Down

(Tindal Street, 2014) 


A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate, but two people confess to the murder. - a youth of nineteen, and an elderly ex-fisherman. Who didn't do it? 

Kingdom

(Wrecking Ball Press, 2015)


A stranger appears out of nowhere in a prison library and assaults a guard. Locked in solitary confinement, he relates his story to a listener over the course of one night. Kingdom, the third novel from Russ Litten, spins together magical realism and hard-boiled psychodrama into a heartbreaking urban fable of human awakening

We Know What We Are

(Obliterati Press, 2018)


This batch of tense and edgy tales are all centered in and around Hull in the year 2017 and feature a cast of citizens whose lives occur at the furthest fringes of the City of Culture spotlight.

I Can See The Lights

(Wild Pressed Books, 2020) 


A collection of prose poetry.