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Christopher Fowler

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

March 26, 1953

Died

March 02, 2023

Website

http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/

Genre

Crime, Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories

Influences

Mervyn Peake, Evelyn Waugh, EM Forster, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dicken ...more

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Christopher Fowler was an English writer known for his Bryant & May mystery series, featuring two Golden Age-style detectives navigating modern London. Over his career, he authored fifty novels and short story collections, along with screenplays, video games, graphic novels, and audio plays. His psychological thriller Little Boy Found was published under the pseudonym L.K. Fox.
Fowler's accolades include multiple British Fantasy Awards, the Last Laugh Award, the CWA Dagger in the Library, and the inaugural Green Carnation Award. He was inducted into the Detection Club in 2021. Beyond crime fiction, his works ranged from horror (Hell Train, Nyctophobia) to m ...more

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How I helped publish Chris’s memoir, Word Monkey

Read this on The Guardian website I was asked by The Guardian to write about my reaction to reading Chris’s book and what happened after his death…. My author spouse never let me read anything he wrote before it was finished. But after his death from cancer, I found myself choosing funeral flowers at the […]

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Christopher Fowler’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 81,838 ratings · 9,969 reviews · 264 distinct works • Similar authors

	Full Dark House (Bryant & May, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 11,470 ratings — published 2003 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water Room (Bryant & May, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 5,157 ratings — published 2004 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Victoria Vanishes (Bryant & May, #6) 4.03 avg rating — 3,632 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seventy-Seven Clocks (Bryant & May, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 3,698 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invisible Code (Bryant & May, #10) 4.08 avg rating — 3,252 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Second Staircase (Bryant & May, #4) 3.96 avg rating — 3,278 ratings — published 2006 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Corridor (Bryant & May, #5) 4.01 avg rating — 3,079 ratings — published 2007 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bryant & May On the Loose (Bryant & May, #7) 4.11 avg rating — 2,727 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Off the Rails (Bryant & May, #8) 4.13 avg rating — 2,713 ratings — published 2010 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bryant & May and The Bleeding Heart (Bryant & May, #11) 4.18 avg rating — 2,659 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit (18 books)
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Quotes by Christopher Fowler (?)

“It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”
― Christopher Fowler, Ten Second Staircase

tags: city, ideas, past, rain, shadows, strangeness, streets

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“Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Memory of Blood

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“I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Victoria Vanishes

tags: society

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