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Martyn Waites: Male
United Kingdom

Hometown:: Newcastle Upon Tyne

About Me:: I'm a crime writer. I've written seven novels. Firstly the Larkin trilogy; Mary's Prayer, Little Triggers, Candleland, all featuring Stephen Larkin. Then Born Under Punches, a novel about the 1984 miners' strike and The White Room, a fictionalised autobiography of child killer Mary Bell which was chosen as one of The Guardian's Books of the Year. I then started a new series featuring Joe Donovan, the first of which, The Mercy Seat, was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year. It was followed by Bone Machine and the third in the series, my eighth, White Riot, is out in Janauary 2008.
In addition to the novels, I've worked as a writer in prisons and with socially excluded kids and adults in the community. I currently have a literary fellowship at university. And in a previous life I was an actor and stand up comic.

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Website:: www.martynwaites.com

Books And Authors I Like:: Apart from me . . . the usual guys as far as crime goes - Chandler, Hammett, MacDonald, Jim Thompson, David Goodis . . . all the James' - Ellroy, Burke, Crumley . . . Patrick Hamilton, Nelson Algren, Hubert Selby Jnr, George Pelecanos, David Peace, Ken Bruen . . . and best of the best, Graham Greene, plus loads more . . .

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: The Wire, The Shield, The Prisoner, Doctor Who, old horror films, Film Noir, you know, the usual stuff . . .

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What was the first crime novel you ever read? AFTER Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys that is, when you were an adult!

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At 6:02am on May 2nd, 2008, carole gill said…: Newcastle! glad to see you. thanks for your contribution to the discussion.

At 3:21am on May 2nd, 2008, L.J. Sellers said…: Hi Martyn
I admire your accomplishments, including working with socially excluded people.

At 7:18am on February 28th, 2008, Chris Ewan said…: Hey Martyn. I was mighty impressed by the White Riot trailer. Hope all goes well with you.
Cheers
Chris

At 9:46pm on January 18th, 2008, helen black said…: I loved the Mary Bell book!
Also is Born Under Punches still around. My Dad was a miner and I'd be interested...
HB x

At 3:12am on December 20th, 2007, Todd Robinson said…: Hey Martyn,

Hope you dig the site.

At 12:16pm on October 31st, 2007, MysteryDawg said…: Welcome aboard and greetings from Southern California.

At 6:48pm on September 4th, 2007, Betty Duffy said…: Got a signed copy of The Mercy Seat, while you were seated at the signing table at Harrogate just gone. My first Martyn Waites - the other years I was too nervous to stop you mid stride to get a book signed. Anyway loved the book - it was an edge of the seat book for me, will definitely be buying more of your books.

At 8:41am on September 3rd, 2007, Allan Guthrie said…: I love me a bit of surrealism, Martyn. "Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether." Luis Bunuel.

At 6:36am on August 30th, 2007, Ray Banks said…: Wait a second, I just read the sidebar.

White Riot? I swear to God, Waites, one of these days we're gonna be rasslin' for titles.

At 6:23am on August 30th, 2007, Ray Banks said…: Oi-oooooooooi, Waitsey. Don't do Facebook, do Crimespace. Now where's your proper website, you slovenly get? And when's the next Donovan?

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