International Guest of Honour
Denise Mina
Denise Mina was born in Glasgow. Her first novel 'Garnethill' won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Dagger for the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by 'Exile' and 'Resolution'. A fourth novel followed, a stand alone, named 'Sanctum' in the UK and 'Deception' in the US. In 2005 'The Field of Blood' was published, the first of a series of five books following the career and life of journalist Paddy Meehan from the newsrooms of the early 1980s, through the momentous events of the nineteen nineties. The second in the series was published in 2006, ‘The Dead Hour’.
She also writes comics and wrote ‘Hellblazer’, the John Constantine series for Vertigo, for a year. In 2006 she wrote her first play, “Ida Tamson” an adaptation of a short story which was serialised in the Evening Times over five nights. As well as all of this she writes short stories published various collections, stories for BBC Radio 4, contributes to TV and radio.
www.denisemina.com
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