Author
Name: Simon Kernick
Brief Biography:
Simon Kernick was born in 1966 in Slough,
England. After leaving school in the mid 1980s he worked in
a variety of jobs and spent several years living and travelling
in Canada and the USA before returning to England via Australia
and the Far East to complete his studies. He graduated from
Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in Humanities and
eventually found work in London as a computer software salesman,
in which profession he stayed for the rest of the ‘90s despite
feeling there was more to life. He rekindled his long-term
interest in story writing and wrote two crime books, neither
of which were met with much of a welcome, before finally embarking
on ‘The Business of Dying’, the story of
a police officer who moonlights as a hitman, which was completed
early in 2001 and sold to Transworld, his current publishers,
in September of that year. The book was released in July 2002
to much critical acclaim with The Guardian describing it as
‘a gem’, and The Independent hailing it as ‘the crime debut
of the year’. From there he has gone from strength to strength.
Simon now lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters,
and is currently working on book number 7.
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