Toby Litt





Toby Litt

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Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968. He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship. He lived in Prague from 1990 to 1993 and published his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Adventures in Capitalism, in 1996.

He is the author of the novels: Beatniks: An English Road Movie (1997), a modern On the Road transposed to middle-England; Corpsing (2000), a thriller set in London's Soho; and Deadkidsongs (2001), a dark tale of childhood. Exhibitionism (2002), is a collection of short stories that explore the boundaries of sex and sexuality. A short story by Toby Litt was inclu...more


Average rating: 3.41 · 2160 ratings · 317 reviews · 34 distinct works
Deadkidsongs
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Corpsing
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Hospital: A Dream Vision
3.3 of 5 stars 330 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Beatniks: An English Road M...
3.31 of 5 stars 331 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Finding Myself
3.13 of 5 stars 313 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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I Play the Drums in a Band ...
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Exhibitionism
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Ghost Story
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Journey Into Space
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Adventures in Capitalism
3.4 of 5 stars 340 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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