Belinda Bauer (author)

Belinda Bauer (born 1962) is a British writer of crime novels. She grew up in England and South Africa,[1] and her debut novel Blacklands earned her the British Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of 2010.[2] Both Blacklands and her second novel Darkside (2011) are set in the village of Shipcott, on Exmoor, in north Devon, England. Both have been translated into several languages.

Finders Keepers is Belinda Bauer's third novel, also set in Shipcott. The book was released in the UK on 5 January 2012, and in the United States on 28 February 2012.

In 2014, her book Rubbernecker won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[3]

Bauer is a former journalist and screenwriter; she won the Carl Foreman BAFTA for her screenplay The Locker Room.[4] She now lives in Wales.[5]

In July 2018 Bauer's novel, Snap, was longlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize.[6]

Bibliography

  • Blacklands. Bantam Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4391-4944-7.
  • Darkside. Bantam Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-593-06296-8.
  • Finders Keepers. Bantam Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-593-06690-4.
  • Rubbernecker. Bantam Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-593-06692-8.
  • The Facts of Life and Death. Bantam Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-593-07278-3.
  • The Shut Eye. Bantam Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-593-07287-5.
  • The Beautiful Dead. Bantam Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-593-07551-7.
  • Snap. Bantam Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-593-07553-1.

References

  1. ↑ "Biography". Author's website. Archived from the original on 1 November 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Belinda Bauer wins the CWA Gold Dagger 2010". Crime Writers' Association. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Lea, Richard (2014-07-18). "Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year taken by Belinda Bauer". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  4. ↑ "BAUER, BELINDA". Literature Wales. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  5. ↑ Buckingham Literary Festival June 2018
  6. ↑ "Man Booker prize 2018 longlist – in pictures". The Guardian. 2018-07-23. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
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