Peter Guttridge

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

Life

He was educated at Burnley Grammar School, 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. Since 2014 he has been co-director of Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book Festival, which runs each April. ^[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 is published in French by Le Rouergue.^[9] A fourth Brighton novel, The Devil's Moon, was published in 2013. A fifth, Those Who Feel Nothing, was published in May 2014 and in its French edition in 2016. He has written an e-thriller, 'Paradise Island', and 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.^[10]

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)
• "Paradise Island" (e-thriller original, 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)
• "The Box-Shaped Mystery' (Winner Margery Allingham Short Story Competition 2016)

Non-Fiction

• The Great Train Robbery (2008) ^[11]

References

Sources

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

External links

• Official site
• Deckchair Interview