Jon Courtenay Grimwood

'Tough, sexy and brutal, but leavened with sharp humour... Grimwood is a name to watch.' The Times

Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born in Malta and christened in the upturned bell of a ship. He grew up in the Far East, Britain and Scandinavia. Apart from writing novels he works for magazines and newspapers. For the last five years he wrote a monthly review column for the Guardian.

JCG's Felaheen, featuring his half-Berber detective Ashraf Bey, won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. As did his latest novel, End of the World Blues, about a British sniper on the run from Iraq and now running an Irish bar in Tokyo. He is currently writing three novels set in a slightly alternate 15th-century Venice

His work is published in French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Finnish and American, among others

He is married to the journalist and novelist Sam Baker, currently editor-in-chief of Red magazine. They divide their time between London and Winchester...