Comedy, horror, Scottish football and a dog pooing in a bedsit are all to be found in the never-before-heard clips from best-selling thriller writer Chris.
This episode contains strong language.
Cast: Christopher Kent, David Holt, David Monteath and Emma Clarke.
OFFCUTS:
- 03’53’’ – A Church Not Made With Hands; extract from an unpublished novel , 1991
- 09’33’ – Alsatian; extract from a story, 1989
- 14’24’’ – Prey; screenplay, 2006
- 20’47’’ – Death Promises Life for UK Film Industry; spoof magazine article, 1993
- 25’27’’ – Bedlam; pitch for a video game, 2011
- 33’00’’ – interview/article about Terry Gilliam, 1988
- 39’02’’ – One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night; synopsis for a novel, 1997
Chris was born in Glasgow and worked as a sub-editor at Screen International, the Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening News before his first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, won the First Blood Award in 1996 for the best first crime novel of the year. Twenty-three novels followed.
In 2006 he won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing. In 2005 he was named Glasgow University Young Alumnus of the Year and in 2007 he won the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for writing. In 2016 his novel Black Widow won the inaugural McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime novel of the year. In 2017 it was named the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. His latest novel The Cut will be published imminently.
Also under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry, he has collaborated with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, to produce the historical crime novels The Way of All Flesh and The Art of Dying, which depict life at the cutting edge of Edinburgh medicine in the Nineteenth Century, and a third novel is in the works.
More about Chris Brookmyre:
- Twitter: @cbrookmyre
- Website: brookmyre.co.uk
- Twitter Ambrose Parry: @ambroseparry
- Chris’s Amazon: Christopher-Brookmyre
