Name Peter Guttridge | Education University of Oxford | |
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Books The Last King of Brighton, Those Who Feel Nothing, The Once and Future Con, City of Dreadful Night, Thing Itself | ||
Peter Guttridge with Martina Cole & Peter James Crimefest 2018
Peter Guttridge (born in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English novelist and critic.
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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. 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 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.