Alan Judd

Alan Judd is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty. Born in 1946, he is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.

Fiction Titles

• A Breed of Heroes (1981 - adapted by Charles Wood as a BBC television film in 1996)
• Short of Glory (1984)
• The Noonday Devil (1987)
• Tango (1989)
• The Devil's Own Work (1991)
• Legacy (2001)
• The Kaiser's Last Kiss (2003)
• Dancing with Eva (2006)
• Uncommon Enemy (2012)
• Inside Enemy (2014)

Non fiction Titles

• Ford Madox Ford (1990)
• First World War Poets (Character Sketches) (1997)
• The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming And the Founding of the Secret Service (1999)

Awards

• A Breed of Heroes won the 1981 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted and became runner-up in the 1981 Booker Prize.
• In 1991, he won the Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.

External links

• A Brief Biography
• David Higham Associates