Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride is a Scots writer, maist weel-kent fur his crime thrillers set in the "Granite Ceety" o Aiberdeen an featurin Detective Sergeant Logan McRae. He bides in northeast Scotland wi his wife Fiona an thair cat Grendal.[1]
Stuart MacBride | |
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Born | Dumbairton, Scotland | 27 Februar 1969
Thrift | Novelist |
Naitionality | Scots |
Genre | Crime / Sci-fi |
Notable warks | Logan McRae series |
Spoose | Fiona MacBride |
Wabsteid | |
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Biographie
eeditStuart MacBride wis born 27 Februar 1969 in Dumbairton, Scotland and upbrocht in Aiberdeen. He had mony careers, includin cleanin cludgies ooterly, graphic an wab design, an computer programmin.[2] He studied airchitectur at Heriot-Watt Varsity.[3]
MacBride siccart a furthsettin deal wi his novelle Halfhead; housomeiver, the publishers teuk an interest in Cold Granite, concernin DS Logan McRae. He wis subscrieved fur a threy-beuk deal, that wis stentit tae sax beuks. In 2009, he wis subscrieved fur twa mair MacRae novelles as weel as twa standalane beuks.[3] In a speir frae the Alibi telly channel, MacBride leetit R. D. Wingfield as a "literary inspiration".[4] MacBride's novelles, in parteecular his MacRae beuks, hae been descrievit as tairtan noir.[5]
MacBride wis ane o ten fowk furst addit tae the Aiberdeen Haw o Heroes[6] and wis crount Warld Stovies Champion in 2014. He wan Celebrity Mastermind in 2017 wi a speicialist subject on the life an wirks o A. A. Milne.[7]
Bibiliographie
eeditLogan McRae novelles
eedit- 2005 - Cold Granite
- 2006 - Dying Light
- 2007 - Broken Skin (publisht in Americae as Bloodshot)
- 2008 - Flesh House
- 2009 - Blind Eye
- 2010 - Dark Blood
- 2011 - Shatter the Bones
- 2012 - Partners in Crime (Twa Logan an Steel short stories: Bad Heir Day an Stramash)
- 2013 - Close to the Bone
- 2014 - The 45% Hangover (A Logan an Steel novella)
- 2015 - 22 Dead Little Bodies (A Logan an Steel short novelle)
- 2015 - The Missing and the Dead
- 2016 - In the Cold Dark Ground
- 2017 - Now We Are Dead
- 2018 - The Blood Road
- 2019 - All That's Dead
Oldcastle novelles
eedit- 2012 - Birthdays for the Dead
- 2014 - A Song for the Dying
- 2017 - A Dark so Deadly
Other works
eedit- 2008 - Sawbones
- 2009 - Halfhead
- 2011 - Twelve Days of Winter (e-beuk; released in print in 2012)
Awairds
eeditWan
- Barry Award fur Best First Novel, fur Cold Granite in 2006.[8]
- CWA Dagger in the Library Awaird, 2007.[9]
- ITV3 Crime Thriller Award fur Breakthrough Author of the Year, fur Broken Skin in 2008.[10]
Nominate
- International Thriller Writers Awards, Best Debut Novel, fur Cold Granite in 2006.[11]
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, fur Cold Granite in 2006.[12]
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, fur Dying Light in 2007.[13]
- Barry Award fur Best British Crime Novel, fur Dying Light in 1007.[8]
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, fur Broken Skin in 2009.[14]
References
eedit- ↑ "Stuart MacBride". Love Reading. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ↑ Sova, Cathy. "New Faces 42 - Stuart MacBride". The Mystery Reader. Archived frae the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ↑ a b Wanner, Len (2013). The Crime Interviews: Volume One: Bestselling Authors Talk About Writing Crime Fiction. Blasted Heath. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-908688-20-0.
- ↑ "Stuart MacBride interview". Alibi. Archived frae the original on 9 Julie 2016. Retrieved 9 Julie 2016.
- ↑ Forshaw, Barry (29 December 2015). "In the Cold Dark Ground, by Stuart MacBride - book review". The Independent. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ↑ "Names chosen for city Hall of Heroes". BBC News. 27 Februar 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ↑ Stephenson, Hannah (22 Apryle 2017). "The dark and light world of Stuart MacBride | Press and Journal". Press and Journal. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ↑ a b "Barry Awards". Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. Archived frae the original on 23 Apryle 2012. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ Hendry, Steve (9 Mey 2010). "Best-selling crime author Stuart MacBride on secrets of new novel". Sunday Mail. The Daily Record. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ Allen, Katie (6 October 2008). "Rankin and P D James pick up ITV3 awards". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ "Thriller Awards - ThrillerFest". International Thriller Writers. Archived frae the original on 21 Februar 2012. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012. "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 21 Februar 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2020.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ Richardson, Anna (19 Juin 2007). "Brookmyre and MacBride on crime shortlist". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ "North-east crime writer on shortlist for major award". Press and Journal. 26 Juin 2008. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (1 Juin 2009). "Theakstons rounds up 14 suspects on crime novel award shortlist | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2012.