Crime writer Graham Hurley admits to being mega-organised. 'The knowledge that I have to fill the fridge every day is a great discipline – and always has been. In a previous life I was a salaried TV documentary producer and knew I could depend on a monthly pay cheque. Once I stepped into the world of writerdom, that safety net vanished. In this business, especially in the current climate, you're always at the mercy of your last set of sales figures. If the stuff doesn't work on the page - and in the marketplace - you're going to be looking at an empty fridge.’ Thus...
First Review for "Backstory"
Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 14:41
A novel departure!, 26 May 2012By Roman- See all my reviewsThis review is from: Backstory (Kindle Edition)I got this book for a number of reasons. Firstly, because I've read all the Farady and Winter books and enjoyed the way the series developed and grew. Secondly, I'm starting out as a writer and I wanted to find out how someone else who is successful had done it. Thirdly, just plain curious! It's not the type of book Hurley has written before and is one of a number if interesting new books since the end of the Faraday and Winter books.Backstory tells the story of the...
Nick Quantrill Reviews the Faraday Series
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 14:19
Over a decade ago, Graham Hurley was made an offer he couldn’t refuse – a three book deal with Orion. The catch? These books had to be crime novels. The problem? Hurley, a documentary maker by trade was no fan of the genre. But shadowing the detectives for a period with no preconceptions triggered an awareness of what could be achieved. Fast forward to 2012 and the publication of “Happy Days” sees Graham Hurley bring his critically acclaimed Portsmouth-set police series to a close.Opening with “Turnstone”, originally tagged solely as a “DI...
"Backstory" Publishes on Kindle
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 08:14
Backstory is a book-length companion piece to the Pompey-based D/I Joe Faraday series. Think "Extra Features" on a movie DVD. I wrote Backstory in response to trillions of conversations and e-mail exchanges with readers keen to find out more about the books. Where did they come from in the first place? Why do they feel so real, so authentic? How do you get to invent characters like Joe Faraday and Paul Winter? And what does it really take to turn the small print of sharp-end CID work into page-turning drama? I'd...
"Estuary"Uploaded to the Kindle Store
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 21:56
I’ve just uploaded a book called Estuary to the Kindle Store. I wrote it a while back, in the immediate aftermath of my father’s death. I never really got on with my dad for most of my life but in the end he had a series of strokes which put a burden on my mum that proved to be beyond her. We brought them both down to Pompey, where Lin and I were living, and found a flat across the road where we could look after them
Estuary is the story of the years that followed, a journey that taught me an enormous amount about myself, the blessings of my...
Estuary is the story of the years that followed, a journey that taught me an enormous amount about myself, the blessings of my...
Mike Carlson's Take on Happy Days
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 18:09
IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
GRAHAM HURLEY'S HAPPY DAYS
Joe Faraday is dead, having killed himself at the end of Graham Hurley's previous novel, Borrowed Light, but his presence hovers over Happy Days, the twelfth and final Faraday and Winter book. Paul Winter needs to sort his life out—working for Bazza MacKenzie has become hazardous: he's decided to stand for Parliament in Portsmouth North, and he's running out of money since all his legitimate investments are tanking. And Winter worries increasingly about the murder that he witnessed in Spain coming back to...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
GRAHAM HURLEY'S HAPPY DAYS
Joe Faraday is dead, having killed himself at the end of Graham Hurley's previous novel, Borrowed Light, but his presence hovers over Happy Days, the twelfth and final Faraday and Winter book. Paul Winter needs to sort his life out—working for Bazza MacKenzie has become hazardous: he's decided to stand for Parliament in Portsmouth North, and he's running out of money since all his legitimate investments are tanking. And Winter worries increasingly about the murder that he witnessed in Spain coming back to...
Thumbs Up from Mark Timlin
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 08:50
Here's the latest review - this time from long-term fan Mark Timlin. Hope he makes a full recovery...
HAPPY DAYS by GRAHAM HURLEY (ORION) Published 2nd February 2012 H/B �12.99
I wrote this review in the day room of the Milward Ward at the The London Hospital in Whitechapel where I spent a lovely nine hours last week waiting for an operation to chop lumps out of me that in the end never happened. But that's another story. The day room had the aspect of a Dickensian slum which perfectly fitted the area in which it is located. The walls were full of holes, the heating system...
HAPPY DAYS by GRAHAM HURLEY (ORION) Published 2nd February 2012 H/B �12.99
I wrote this review in the day room of the Milward Ward at the The London Hospital in Whitechapel where I spent a lovely nine hours last week waiting for an operation to chop lumps out of me that in the end never happened. But that's another story. The day room had the aspect of a Dickensian slum which perfectly fitted the area in which it is located. The walls were full of holes, the heating system...
From the Sabotage Times
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 08:42
Over a decade ago, Graham Hurley was made an offer he couldn’t refuse – a three book deal with Orion. The catch? These books had to be crime novels. The problem? Hurley, a documentary maker by trade was no fan of the genre. But shadowing the detectives for a period with no preconceptions triggered an awareness of what could be achieved. Fast forward to 2012 and the publication of “Happy Days” sees Graham Hurley bring his critically acclaimed Portsmouth-set police series to a close.
Opening with “Turnstone”, originally tagged solely as a “DI Faraday” novel, it’s a mark of how Hurley’s multi-...
Opening with “Turnstone”, originally tagged solely as a “DI Faraday” novel, it’s a mark of how Hurley’s multi-...
The Sunday Observer Salutes Le Cop Anglais
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 08:38
Pompey meets Le Havre in French TV crime hit
British writer Graham Hurley's detective duo are proving popular across the Channel
Filming for Two Cops Down at the Docks, which is set in the port city of Le Havre.
Graham Hurley has sold more than half a million books and been translated into nine languages. Last Wednesday he was in a bookshop in Portsmouth, where his most popular series is set, signing copies of his 12th and final novel featuring Detective Inspector Joe Faraday and Paul Winter, a fellow detective who becomes increasingly disenchanted with police work and eventually goes...
British writer Graham Hurley's detective duo are proving popular across the Channel
Filming for Two Cops Down at the Docks, which is set in the port city of Le Havre.
Graham Hurley has sold more than half a million books and been translated into nine languages. Last Wednesday he was in a bookshop in Portsmouth, where his most popular series is set, signing copies of his 12th and final novel featuring Detective Inspector Joe Faraday and Paul Winter, a fellow detective who becomes increasingly disenchanted with police work and eventually goes...
A Pompey Must
Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 17:59
This is a blatant plug for an artist I much admire. His name is Nigel Grundy and he's spent a great deal of time turning various corners of Old Portsmouth and Southsea into unforgettable drawings. I have a couple of his prints hanging on my study wall. We live in Devon now but a glance at Nigel's take on (for instance) The Slipway at Point, or The Hard at Portsea, or Castle Road, Southsea, takes me straight back to my Pompey days. This guy has an exceptional and very rare talent - and if the Faraday books have whetted your appetite for finding out more about Portsmouth, then Nigel's new book...