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Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty
Irish Novelist
Born: 1968
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Related authors: Elizabeth Bowen Frank Delaney George A. Moore James Joyce John Banville Laurence Sterne Maeve Binchy Robert Graves
The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent. Adrian McKinty
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I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.' Adrian McKinty
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'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel. Adrian McKinty
Best Man High Castle Still Novel
Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location. Adrian McKinty
Sometimes Earth Location Ancient Parallel Temporal Writers Geographic Offered Quite Often Explanation Fantasy Novels Set
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked. Adrian McKinty
Me You First Everyone Immediately Hooked Proper Delighted Mystery David Read Cover End Did Where Which Orient Peter Novel Express Recall
Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters. Adrian McKinty
Will Heroic Unless Embarrass Characters Writers Attempt Generally Institution Like Make Because Educated Go Truly Mobility Privately Efforts Lack Social Themselves Then Lower Working England Who
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. Adrian McKinty
Crime Crime Fiction Proletariat Noir Fiction Literature
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York. Adrian McKinty
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After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there. Adrian McKinty
School Big Secondary Secondary School Stay Scotland Just Big Thing After Then England Thing Apply
A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it. Adrian McKinty
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When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room. Adrian McKinty
Work You Book Solution Mystery Makes Gets Room Across
On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located. Adrian McKinty
War Wikipedia Say Located Born About Said Ireland Going Northern Northern Ireland Where Little Then Page Used Belfast
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down. Adrian McKinty
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I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy. Adrian McKinty
Time Law Degree Miserable Master Philosophy London Law Firm Join Firm Instead Supposed Did Oxford Whole
I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise. Adrian McKinty
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I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months. Adrian McKinty
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