Peter Guttridge


Peter Guttridge is an English novelist and critic.

Life

He was educated at Burnley Grammar School, the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham. He is a former director of the Brighton Literature Festival and remains a regular chairperson at major UK book festivals. In 2014 he established Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book Festival, which runs each April, and remained director until 2018.
A freelance journalist for twenty years, specialising in literature and film, he has interviewed numerous writers from around the world and many high-profile actors and film directors.
He has also written about astanga vinyasa yoga. He was the Observer newspaper’s crime fiction critic 1999-2011.
Between 1996 and 2005 he wrote an award-winning series of satirical crime novels featuring a yoga-obsessed journalist, Nick Madrid, and his tough-as-nails sidekick, Bridget Frost.
His latest publications are the non-comic Brighton crime trilogy: The City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and The Thing Itself. The Trilogy and later Brighton books are published in French by Le Rouergue. The other Brighton novels so far in what is now the Brighton series are:The Devil's Moon ;Those Who Feel Nothing ; Swimming With The Dead ; The Lady of The Lake ; Butcher's Wood. He has written an e-thriller, Paradise Island. An e-novella, The Belgian and The Beekeeper, is set on the Sussex Downs in 1916, where Sherlock Holmes is asked by a celebrated foreign detective to investigate Dr Watson.

Novels

  • A Ghost of A Chance
  • Two To Tango
  • The Once and Future Con
  • Foiled Again
  • Cast Adrift
  • City of Dreadful Night
  • The Last King of Brighton
  • The Thing Itself
  • The Belgian and The Beekeeper
  • The Devil's Moon
  • Those Who Feel Nothing
  • Paradise Island
  • Swimming With The Dead
  • The Lady of the Lake
  • ''Butcher's Wood''

    Short stories

  • Don’t Think of Tigers
  • The Great Detective;
  • The Postman Only Rings When He Can Be Bothered
  • The Library Sign
  • The Man With The Pram
  • God's Lonely Man
  • The Box-Shaped Mystery
  • ''Normal Rules Do Not Apply''

    Non-fiction

  • ''The Great Train Robbery''