Andrew Taylor (writer)

Andrew Taylor (born October 14, 1951 in Stevenage , Hertfordshire ) is a British writer.

Life

Andrew Taylor grew up in Fen Country in East Anglia . He studied at the universities in Cambridge and London . He then worked in various professions, including boat builder, teacher, librarian and payroll clerk. In 1981 he turned to writing full-time.

He has written over 20 books to date, mostly detective novels and thrillers . He also wrote some books for young people . His first novel Caroline Minuscule reached up to four million listeners as a radio play series on BBC Radio 4.

In Germany he was best known for the Lydmouth series and the Roth trilogy . The special thing about the trilogy is that the story of the Appleyard and Byfield families is told backwards.

He also writes articles and reviews on crime fiction for various newspapers such as The Independent . Many of his books have only appeared in Great Britain and the United States .

Andrew Taylor lives with his wife Caroline, children Sarah and William and two cats named Max and Tom in the Forest of Dean on the border between England and Wales.

Awards

• 1982 CWA John Creasey Memorial Award for Caroline Minuscule .
• 2001 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for The Office of the Dead (German: A Mass for the Dead . Zsolnay, Vienna 2002)
• 2003 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for The American Boy (German: The Sleep of the Dead . Goldmann, Munich 2005)
• 2009 Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award , highest award of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for the life's work of an author to date
• 2009 Swedish Crime Award - International (The Martin Beck Award) for Det blödande hjärtat (Original: Bleeding Heart Square ; German: Das tote Herz . Goldmann, Munich 2009)
• 2013 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for The Scent of Death

Works

The year of the British first publication is given as the year.

For younger children

• 1989 Private Nose

Thriller for teenagers and older children

• 1988 Hairline Cracks
• 1989 snapshot
• 1990 double exposure
• 1992 negative image
• 1994 The Invader

Psychological thriller

• 1991 The Raven on the Water
• 1993 The Barred Window
• 2005 The Sleep of the Dead (The American Boy)
• 2007 The Truth We Owe the Dead (A Stain on the Silence)
• 2009 Bleeding heart square

The Blaines Trilogy

• 1988 The Second Midnight
• 1988 blacklist
• 1990 toyshop

The Dougal series

• 1982 Caroline Minuscule
• 1984 Waiting for the End of the World
• 1985 Our Fathers' Reads
• 1986 at Old School Tie
• 1987 Freelance Death
• 1990 Blood Relation
• 1992 The Sleeping Policeman
• 1993 Odd Man Out

The Lydmouth series

• 1994 An Air That Kills
• 1995 The Mortal Sickness
• 1997 First Crocuses (The Lover of the Grave)
• 1998 The Suffocating Night
• 2000 Faded Roses (Where Roses Fade)
• 2001 Death's Own Door
• 2004 Call The Dying
• 2006 Naked to the Hangman

The Roth trilogy

• 1997 The Four Last Things
• 1998 The Judgment of Strangers
• 2000 A Mass for the Dead (The Office of the Dead)
• Anthology: Requiem for an Angel (the Roth trilogy in one book), 2002

Other works

• 2003 The American Boy

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrew Taylor in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.andrew-taylor.co.uk/ - website of the author (s)