Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1.
Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children. DAVID QUANTICK is a novelist (All My Colors, Night Train), broadcaster (Radio 2's The Blagger's Guide, Front Row, Loose Ends), music journalist (NME, Q, Uncut) and comedy writer (The Thick of It, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Veep, Avenue 5, Brass Eye). He wrote the Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling (unofficial) Grumpy Old Men books and is the author of How to Write Everything.
In his spare time, he hosts quizzes, which, for over fifteen years, have attracted paying customers who like to be enraged and entertained by quizzes described by many people as 'quite difficult'. Martyn Waites was born and raised in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He first worked as an actor and has appeared in numerous theatre and TV productions. His first novel, Mary's Prayer, featuring investigative journalist Stephen Larkin, was published in 1997.
He has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for thriller of the year, the Dagger in Library and the short story Dagger, and his novel The White Room was Guardian Book of the Year. Writing as Tania Carver, he created the Phil Brennan/Marina Esposito series, the first of which, The Surrogate, was shortlisted for the Theakstons Award for crime novel of the year. He has held two writing residencies in YOIs and prisons, twice been the RLF Literary Fellow at Essex university, held classes in creative writing for excluded teenagers and taught an MA in crime fiction.
He can be found at www.martynwaites.com or www.taniacarver.com. Stav Sherez writes crime fiction for Faber and is a former music journalist.
Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children. DAVID QUANTICK is a novelist (All My Colors, Night Train), broadcaster (Radio 2's The Blagger's Guide, Front Row, Loose Ends), music journalist (NME, Q, Uncut) and comedy writer (The Thick of It, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Veep, Avenue 5, Brass Eye). He wrote the Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling (unofficial) Grumpy Old Men books and is the author of How to Write Everything.
In his spare time, he hosts quizzes, which, for over fifteen years, have attracted paying customers who like to be enraged and entertained by quizzes described by many people as 'quite difficult'. Martyn Waites was born and raised in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He first worked as an actor and has appeared in numerous theatre and TV productions. His first novel, Mary's Prayer, featuring investigative journalist Stephen Larkin, was published in 1997.
He has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for thriller of the year, the Dagger in Library and the short story Dagger, and his novel The White Room was Guardian Book of the Year. Writing as Tania Carver, he created the Phil Brennan/Marina Esposito series, the first of which, The Surrogate, was shortlisted for the Theakstons Award for crime novel of the year. He has held two writing residencies in YOIs and prisons, twice been the RLF Literary Fellow at Essex university, held classes in creative writing for excluded teenagers and taught an MA in crime fiction.
He can be found at www.martynwaites.com or www.taniacarver.com. Stav Sherez writes crime fiction for Faber and is a former music journalist.
