Brian McGilloway
Brian McGilloway (born 1974) is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland.
Biography
[edit]McGilloway was born in Derry where he attended St Columb's College. He then studied English at Queen's University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is a former Head of English at St. Columb's College in Derry, but now teaches in Holy Cross College in Strabane.[1][2]
McGilloway lives in Strabane with his wife and their four children.[3]
Writing
[edit]McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands. Borderlands was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel.[4]
In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series.[5] The sequel to Borderlands, Gallows Lane, was published in April 2008.[citation needed]
His 2020 novel, The Last Crossing, was nominated in the 2021 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[6]
Published books
[edit]Benedict Devlin series
[edit]- 2007 - Borderlands (Pan Macmillan)
- 2008 - Gallows Lane (Pan Macmillan)
- 2009 - Bleed a River Deep (Pan Macmillan)
- 2010 - The Rising(Pan Macmillan)
- 2012 - The Nameless Dead (Constable)
- 2021 - Blood Ties (Constable)
Lucy Black series
[edit]- 2011 - Little Girl Lost (Pan Macmillan)
- 2013 - Hurt (Constable and Robinson)
- 2016 - Preserve the Dead (Corsair)
- 2017 - Bad Blood (Little Brown)
Single novels
[edit]- 2020 - The Last Crossing (Dome Press)
- 2022 - The Empty Room (Constable)
Podcast
[edit]- If walls could talk - BBC3[7]
References
[edit]- ^ DOHERTY, HARRY (14 March 2008). "McGilloway on the run". Derry Journal. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
- ^ "English Dept". St Columb's College. 22 June 2011. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ "Brian McGilloway". The Agency. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ Burke, Declan (28 October 2007). "Dark fiction that knows no boundaries". The Sunday Times.
- ^ "'No-frills' authors move to Pan". Bookseller (5273): 10. 23 March 2007. ISSN 0006-7539.
- ^ Mitchinson, James, ed. (23 July 2021). "Whitaker wins crime novel of the year award". The Yorkshire Post. p. 8. ISSN 0963-1496.
- ^ McGilloway, Brian. "If walls could talk". The Essay. BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
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