Peter Guttridge

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Peter Guttridge (born in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English novelist and critic.

Life

He was educated at Oxford University and Nottingham University, he is a former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival and remains a regular chairperson at major UK book festivals. In 2014 he became co-director of Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book Festival, which ran 24-28 April. 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. He has also written about astanga vinyasa yoga. He was the Observer newspaper’s crime fiction critic 1999-2011.

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. 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). The Trilogy is published in French by Le Rouergue. A fourth Brighton novel, The Devil's Moon, was published in 2013. A fifth, Those Who Feel Nothing, was published in May 2014. He has also written an e-novella, The Belgian and The Beekeeper, set on the Sussex Downs in 1916, in which Sherlock Holmes is asked by a celebrated foreign detective to investigate Dr Watson.

Bibliography

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)

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)

Non-Fiction

• The Great Train Robbery (2008)

Sources

• Barry Forshaw: British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood World Publishing)

External links

• Official site
• Deckchair Interview