Neil Cross

Neil Cross is a Booker Prize nominated novelist, crime writer and television scriptwriter born and raised in the United Kingdom, and now living in Wellington, New Zealand.

Life

Born in Bristol, Cross grew up in Edinburgh with his mother and stepfather, Derek Cross. After that relationship broke up, Cross returned to Bristol as a teenager, attending Brislington Comprehensive school. He later went to Leeds University, before beginning work in the publishing industry.^[1] In 2002 he moved to Wellington, New Zealand with his wife Nadya and their family.^[2] While living in New Zealand, he has continued writing, and also has written for television, including being the lead writer for the BBC TV series Spooks. Cross also wrote an episode for Season One of The Fixer.

Bibliography

• 2011: Luther; The Calling
• 2010: Captured
• 2009: Burial
• 2007: Natural History
• 2006: Heartland (a memoir)
• 2004: Always the Sun (long-listed for the Booker Prize)
• 2003: Holloway Falls
• 1999: Christendom
• 1998: Mr In-Between (adapted into the film Mr In-Between (a.k.a. The Killing Kind)

Television writing

• Spooks
• Luther
• The Fixer

References

1. ^ Simon & Schuster official website
2. ^ Listener magazine article

External links

• Neil Cross profile on official Simon & Schuster website
• Listener article
• 'Neil Cross' entry in British Crime Writing: an encyclopedia, edited by Barry Forshaw

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