Brian McGilloway

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Brian McGilloway is an author hailing from Derry, Northern Ireland. He studied English at Queens University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a prestigious national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is currently Head of English at St. Columb's College, Derry.[1][2] McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands. Borderlands was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel.[3]

In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series.[4] The sequel to Borderlands, Gallows Lane, was published in April, 2008.

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  1. ^ DOHERTY, HARRY (2008-03-14). "McGilloway on the run". Derry Journal. http://www.derryjournal.com/features/McGilloway-on-the-run.3881033.jp. Retrieved 2008-05-31. 
  2. ^ "St Columb's College Derry - English". http://www.stcolumbs.com/Portal.aspx?tabindex=133&tabid=4130&parentid=4081. Retrieved 2008-05-31. 
  3. ^ Burke, Declan (2007-10-28). "Dark fiction that knows no boundaries". The Sunday Times. 
  4. ^ "'No-frills' authors move to Pan". Bookseller (Issue 5273): p10. 2007-03-23. ISSN 00067539. 

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