286-] English Literature
Glen Duncan
Glen
Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to an
Anglo-Indian family. He studied philosophy and literature at the universities
of Lancaster and Exeter.
In
1990 Duncan moved to London, where he worked as a bookseller for four years,
writing in his spare time. In 1994 he visited India with his father (part roots
odyssey, part research for a later work, The Bloodstone Papers) before
continuing on to the United States, where he spent several months travelling
the country by Amtrak train, writing much of what would become his first novel,
Hope, published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 1997.
His
novel I, Lucifer was published in 2002. The premise of the book is that Lucifer
has been given a month to live in mortal form to get himself back into God's
good graces before the end of the world. The film rights have been sold. The
book was provided with a "soundtrack" by Duncan's longtime friend
Stephen Coates and his band The Real Tuesday Weld, a cross-platform
collaboration repeated for Duncan's book The Last Werewolf. The pair have
toured and performed at various live events and festivals together including at
the British Film Institute.
According
to critic William Skidelsky in The Observer, Duncan "specialises in
writing novels that can't easily be pigeon-holed". Similarly, David Robson
in The Daily Telegraph has noted that Duncan is "an idiosyncratic
talent", adding,"You never know quite which way he is going to
turn."
In
2013, Glen Duncan took the pseudonym of Saul Black to publish a thriller, The
Killing Lessons, in 2015.
Bibliography
Hope
(1997)
Love
Remains (2000)
I,
Lucifer (2002)
Weathercock
(2003)
Death
of an Ordinary Man (2004)
The
Bloodstone Papers (2006)
A
Day And A Night And A Day (2009)
The
Last Werewolf (April 2011)
Talulla
Rising (June 2012)
By
Blood We Live (February 2014)
Valerie
Hart series
Published
under the pseudonym Saul Black:
The
Killing Lessons (2015)
LoveMurder
(2016)
Anything for You (2019)
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