Eric Brown

Born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, Eric Brown started writing in 1975 while living in Australia, has lived in India and Greece, and has travelled extensively in the far east. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the 2012 Philip K. Dick award. He’s published over seventy books and his latest include the sixth crime novel in the Langham and Dupré series, set in the 1950s, Murder Served Cold, and the SF novel Buying Time. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and fifty short stories.

His only claim to fame is that he owns Scotland’s largest collection of yeast extract jars.

He is owned by a red and white setter, Uther, who exercises him regularly.

He writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath near Dunbar, Scotland.