One of the first of a new style of Scottish crime writers, Brookmyre combines excellent plotting ability with a black sense of humour and of the ridiculous that can poke anarchic fun at genre and storyline alike. He also has a wonderful talent for deeply weird book titles.
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Books by Christopher Brookmyre
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Boiling a Frog
Country of the Blind
Not the End of the World
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
The Sacred Art Of StealingBrookmyre studied Film & TV, English & Theatre at Glasgow University, and went on to become chief sub-editor with Screen International, returning to Edinburgh in 1993 in order to concentrate on writing. Quite Ugly One Morning won the Fresh Blood Award for the best debut crime novel and his readers were equally gripped, tickled and terrified by Country of the Blind. He has subsequently gone from strength to strength and has recently won the 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Writing.