Peter Guttridge

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Peter Guttridge (born in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English novelist and critic. [1]

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Author Peter Guttridge". Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Official website & booksbythebeach.co.uk
  3. ↑ Official website
  4. ↑ Official website
  5. ↑ Guttridge, Peter (23 July 2008). "Peter Guttridge". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  6. ↑ Harrogate International Festival biographies
  7. ↑ British Crimewriting: An Encyclopaedia (Greenwood Publishing)
  8. ↑ Official website
  9. ↑ Official website
  10. ↑ Official website
  11. ↑ "The Great Train Robbery by Peter Guttridge".

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