Brian McGilloway (born 1974) is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland.

Biography

McGilloway was born in Derry where he attended St Columb's College. He then studied English at Queen's University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is a former Head of English at St. Columb's College in Derry, but now teaches in Holy Cross College in Strabane.[1][2]

McGilloway lives in Strabane with his wife and their four children.[3]

Writing

McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands. Borderlands was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel.[4]

In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series.[5] The sequel to Borderlands, Gallows Lane, was published in April 2008.

His 2020 novel, The Last Crossing, was nominated in the 2021 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[6]

Published books

Benedict Devlin series

  • 2007 - Borderlands (Pan Macmillan)
  • 2008 - Gallows Lane (Pan Macmillan)
  • 2009 - Bleed a River Deep (Pan Macmillan)
  • 2010 - The Rising(Pan Macmillan)
  • 2012 - The Nameless Dead (Constable)
  • 2021 - Blood Ties (Constable)

Lucy Black series

  • 2011 - Little Girl Lost (Pan Macmillan)
  • 2013 - Hurt (Constable and Robinson)
  • 2016 - Preserve the Dead (Corsair)
  • 2017 - Bad Blood (Little Brown)

Single novels

  • 2020 - The Last Crossing (Dome Press)
  • 2022 - The Empty Room (Constable)

Podcast

  • If walls could talk - BBC3[7]

References

  1. ↑ DOHERTY, HARRY (14 March 2008). "McGilloway on the run". Derry Journal. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
  2. ↑ "English Dept". St Columb's College. 22 June 2011. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Brian McGilloway". The Agency. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  4. ↑ Burke, Declan (28 October 2007). "Dark fiction that knows no boundaries". The Sunday Times.
  5. ↑ "'No-frills' authors move to Pan". Bookseller (5273): 10. 23 March 2007. ISSN 0006-7539.
  6. ↑ Mitchinson, James, ed. (23 July 2021). "Whitaker wins crime novel of the year award". The Yorkshire Post. p. 8. ISSN 0963-1496.
  7. ↑ McGilloway, Brian. "If walls could talk". The Essay. BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2022.


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