The Radgepacket Sessions
Christopher Brookmyre is the author of twelve published novels to date, the latest being ‘A Snowball’s chance in hell’. He won the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with ‘All fun and games until somebody loses an eye’ and, as is tradition, a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig was named after the winning novel.
Lucky he never called the book ‘Bacon Sandwich’ really…
Camilla, in a bit of change from our normal modus operandi, is not a writer. She is in fact a literary agent (and a very nice one at that) with top agency Darley Anderson. We thought it would be good to get the views of someone who has to find a way around the eccentricities and quibbles of both readers and writers so we turned to her and she didn't let us down. Having said that she does have a thing about Titanic...hmmm.
Charlie Williams wrote the books DEADFOLK, FAGS AND LAGER and KING OF THE ROAD. He lives in the Worcester area with his wife and two kids. He went to Swansea Uni, where he didn't do very well, and Kent Uni where he tried slightly harder. Thank God for second chances. His favourite authors are Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, Magnus Mills and Thomas Hardy. He draws inspiration from the Malvern Hills, the behaviour of cats, the behaviour of drunk people and boxing (watching, not doing). He is distantly related to Laurie Lee, the late author of CIDER WITH ROSIE among other titles. (Not that this means much, but it could be pointed out that they both have alcoholic beverages in their titles.) As well as novels he writes short stories, screenplays and comics.
Max Kinnings is the author of two previous works, namely ‘Hitman’ and ‘The Fixer’. He is currently working on a new novel entitled ‘Baptism’ - a thriller about a terrorist hi-jack on the London Underground – as well as co-writing the film 'Act of Grace' which has it's world premiere at the NFT next month.
Danny King
Danny King was born in Slough in 1969. He is the author of seven comic crime novels, the first being The Burglar Diaries and the latest being School for Scumbags, as well as the BBC sitcom, Thieves Like Us, which was based on his first novel. A former hod carrier, porn mag editor and burglar, he often writes about what he knows and occasionally even spells some of it correctly. He lives in north London with his wife, Jeannie, and his new son, Charlie. He only likes KP Dry Roasted peanuts. No others.
