Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowleris an English thriller writer. He is the award-winning author of more than forty novels and short-story collections, including the Bryant & May mysteries, which record the adventures of two Golden Age detectives in modern-day London. The recipient of the 2015 Dagger In The Library, his other works include screenplays, video games, graphic novels, audio and stage plays. He writes a weekly column in The Independent on Sunday called 'Invisible Ink'. He was born in Greenwich, London. He lives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 March 1953
The drawings are terribly good.
[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.
I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.
Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet
As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.
Too many new writers dress up old cliches.