Name Simon Kernick Role Writer | Education University of Brighton | |
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Nominations Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Books Relentless, The Business of Dying, The Crime Trade, The Murder Exchange, The Payback Profiles | ||
Thriller author simon kernick on his writing themes research and love of london
Simon Kernick (born 25 January 1966 in Slough, Berkshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters Amy and Rachel. Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. At this youthful age, Kernick already made little books about cowboys and Indians with his artist friend Patrick Palmer. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.
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- Thriller author simon kernick on his writing themes research and love of london
- The payback by simon kernick about writing the book
- References
Kernick had a passion for crime fiction writing from a young age and produced many short stories during his time at polytechnic. After graduating Kernick joined MMT Computing in London in early 1992, where a relative was the Chairman and Managing Director. He left the company after four years in the hope of trying to secure a publishing deal. Despite interest from a number of publishers Kernick was unable to secure a deal, so he joined the sales force of the specialist IT and Business Consultancy Metaskil plc in Aldermaston, Berkshire in 1998 where he remained until he secured his first book deal The Business of Dying in September 2001.
His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year.