John Niven

The highly acclaimed author of Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs and The Second Coming, John was previously in one of the first bands ever signed to the nascent Heavenly Recordings (The Wishing Stones), the record label that Caught By The River evolved from in 2007.

Niven’s breakthrough novel Kill Your Friends - a scathing satire of the music business - achieved critical acclaim, with Word magazine describing it as ‘possibly the best British Novel since Trainspotting‘. It has been translated into seven languages and was a bestseller in Britain and Germany.

“Kill Your Friends exposes a world that seethes alongside us and in which we all collude but whose nasty little machinery is rarely glimpsed. The novel is furiously, filthily funny, and, I imagine, tragically true.”
- Niall Griffiths