Roger (R.N.) Morris

Profile Information:

Hometown:

London

About Me:

I live in Crouch End, North London, where I write historical crime fiction as RN Morris and contemporary urban fiction as Roger Morris. Sometimes I have to remind myself who I am.

Married, two kids.

I'm the author of A Gentle Axe and A Vengeful Longing, two novels set in 19th century St Petersburg featuring Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. (Faber in the UK, Penguin in the US)

I also wrote a contemporary thriller called Taking Comfort (Macmillan New Writing 2006).

I Am A:

Writer

Website:

http://rogersplog.blogspot.com

Books And Authors I Like:

Too many, too difficult! But...

Dostoevsky, of course. My novels are a tribute to him. Plus Tolstoy and Turgenev.

For crime, Andrew Taylor's The American Boy impressed me enormously. I like the lyricism of James Lee Burke and Peter Temple. Another writer in a similar vein is Brian McGilloway - check out his Borderlands. Oh God this is so difficult!!!! Jim Thompson's Pop.1280 is a Dostoevskyan masterpiece. I must also mention my fellow North London Historical Crime Writers, Lee Jackson, Andrew Martin and Frank Tallis. Recently read the first Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo Beck novel and thought it was fab, so I intend to pursue the series. Simenon, of course. Will that do for now?

Movies And TV Shows I Like:

I'm getting into Madmen.

My secret vice, though, is America's Next Top Model.

The original CSI.

Waking The Dead.

Blood in the Wire.

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  Ann Reillet

  Thanks for the add and hugs from America;-)

  Mar 1, 2009

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  Shannon

  Thanks for the befriending, Roger! America's Next Top Model?!! I can see it, I guess...some of the things that go on there should be a crime. :-)
  Happy Writing, Shannon

  Mar 1, 2009

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  Robin Jarossi

  I finally reached the last episode of The Wire – a two-hour special. I can't bring myself to watch it, because then I'll have to go back to The Shield, which is good. But I'll miss Bunk and the gang.

  Apr 30, 2009