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Peter Guttridge (born in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English novelist and critic.[1]
He was educated at Burnley Grammar School, the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham. He is a former director of the Brighton Literature Festival and remains a regular chairperson at major UK book festivals. In 2014 he established Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book Festival, which runs each April, and remained director until 2018.[2] A freelance journalist for twenty years, specialising in literature and film, he has interviewed numerous writers from around the world and many high-profile actors and film directors.[3] He has also written about astanga vinyasa yoga.[4] He was the Observer newspaper’s crime fiction critic 1999-2011.[5]
Between 1996 and 2005 he wrote an award-winning series of satirical crime novels featuring a yoga-obsessed journalist, Nick Madrid, and his tough-as-nails sidekick, Bridget Frost.[6][7] His latest publications are the non-comic Brighton crime trilogy: The City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and The Thing Itself (formerly God's Lonely Man).[8] The Trilogy and later Brighton books are published in French by Le Rouergue.[9] The other Brighton novels so far in what is now the Brighton series are:The Devil's Moon (2013);Those Who Feel Nothing (2014 - and in its French edition in 2016); Swimming With The Dead (2019); The Lady of The Lake (2019); Butcher's Wood (2021). He has written an e-thriller, Paradise Island. An e-novella, The Belgian and The Beekeeper, is set on the Sussex Downs in 1916, where Sherlock Holmes is asked by a celebrated foreign detective to investigate Dr Watson.[10]
Novels
- No Laughing Matter. Headline. 1997. ISBN 978-0-7472-5645-8. (reprint Speck Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9725776-4-9)
- A Ghost of A Chance (1998)
- Two To Tango (1998)
- The Once and Future Con (1999)
- Foiled Again (2001)
- Cast Adrift (2004)
- City of Dreadful Night (2010)
- The Last King of Brighton (2011)
- The Thing Itself (2012)
- The Belgian and The Beekeeper (novella, e-book original, 2012)
- The Devil's Moon (2013)
- Those Who Feel Nothing (2014)
- Paradise Island (e-thriller original, 2014)
- Swimming With The Dead (2019)
- The Lady of the Lake (2019)
- Butcher's Wood (2021)
Short stories
- Don’t Think of Tigers [Editor] (2001)
- The Great Detective; (The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, 2002)
- The Postman Only Rings When He Can Be Bothered (The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, 2002; Crime Scenes, 2008)
- The Library Sign (The Illustrated Brighton Moment, 2008)
- The Man With The Pram (Criminal Tendencies, 2009)
- God's Lonely Man ('The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime", 2014 - this story the winner of the 2013 Graham Greene International Festival Short Story Competition)
- The Box-Shaped Mystery (Winner Margery Allingham Short Story Competition 2016)
- Normal Rules Do Not Apply (Ten Year Stretch 2018)
Non-fiction
- The Great Train Robbery (2008)[11]
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