John Connolly
Autor(a) de The Book of Lost Things
About the Author
John Connolly is the author of "Every Dead Thing" which was a bestseller in Britain and Ireland. He is a regular contributor to "The Irish Times," and has traveled extensively in the United States. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. (Publisher Provided) John Connolly was born May 31, 1968 in Dublin. He mostrar mais is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker. His first novel, Every Dead Thing was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and went on to win the 2000 Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel (he is the first author outside of the US to have won the award). Connolly's debut introduced readers to the anti-hero Charlie Parker, a former police officer hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Connolly has since written a further 5 books in the popular Parker series and a non-Parker thriller, as well as venturing outside of the crime genre with the publication of first, an anthology of ghost stories and later, a novel about a young boy's coming-of-age journey during World War II England. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Connolly worked as a journalist, a barman, and a local government official. After graduating with a B.A. in English from Trinity College, Dublin and a M.A. in Journalism from Dublin City University, he spent five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper. He quickly became frustrated with the profession, and began to write Every Dead Thing in his spare time. Connolly continues to contribute articles to the paper. His eighth book in the Charlie Parker series, The Reapers, was published in 2008. The tenth Parker novel, titled The Whisperers, was published in 2010. His current bestseller is A Time of Torment, the fourteenth in the Charlie Parker series.. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por John Connolly
Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy - The… (2016) 379 exemplares
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (2012) — Editor — 240 exemplares
Every Dead Thing / Desert Places / Subterranean / The Hundredth Man (2006) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Inkpot Monkey 2 exemplares
Mr. Gray's Folly [short story] 2 exemplares
The Social Organisation of Marketing A Figurational Approach to People, Organisations, and Markets (2017) 2 exemplares
The Djinn 1 exemplar
The Inn at Shillingford 1 exemplar
The Cycle 1 exemplar
The Blood of the Lamb 1 exemplar
A Dream of Water 1 exemplar
The Lamia 1 exemplar
The Children of Dr. Lyall 1 exemplar
The Fractured Atlas - Five Fragments 1 exemplar
The Dread and Fear of Kings 1 exemplar
The Instruments of Darkness 1 exemplar
Mud 1 exemplar
And In Darkness Shall We Dwell 1 exemplar
Razorshins 1 exemplar
A Haunting 1 exemplar
The Bridal Bed 1 exemplar
Lazarus 1 exemplar
Defender 1 exemplar
The Man From the Second Fifteen 1 exemplar
The Furnace Room 1 exemplar
The Wakeford Abyss 1 exemplar
Book of lost things, The 1 exemplar
US Magazine (Heidi Fleiss: A Dangerous Woman - The Hollywood Madam / Tom Hanks / Mariah Carey) (1993) 1 exemplar
De las cosas que recuerdo 1 exemplar
I Live Here 1 exemplar
Noční hudba 1 exemplar
Nocturne 1 exemplar
The Cancer Cowboy Rides 1 exemplar
Mr. Pettinger's Dæmon 1 exemplar
The Erlking 1 exemplar
The Ritual of the Bones 1 exemplar
The New Daughter 1 exemplar
The Shifting of the Sands 1 exemplar
Some Children Wander by Mistake 1 exemplar
Deep, Dark Green 1 exemplar
Miss Froom, Vampire 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) — Contribuidor — 206 exemplares
Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores (2017) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon (2016) — Contribuidor — 126 exemplares
Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (2011) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Hebbes 1 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Connolly, John
- Nome legal
- Connolly, John
- Data de nascimento
- 1968-05-31
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
- País (no mapa)
- Ireland
- Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Dublin, Ireland
- Educação
- Trinity College, Dublin
Dublin City University - Ocupações
- journalist
writer
Membros
Discussions
The Book of Lost Things book discussion em Hogwarts Express (Julho 2010)
WWII, boy, alternate world? em Name that Book (Fevereiro 2009)
Críticas
Listas
Must-Read Maine (1)
Unread books (1)
Edgar Award (1)
At the Library (1)
To Read - Horror (1)
To Read (3)
Best Young Adult (2)
Magic Realism (1)
Devilish Books (1)
True Crime Books (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 108
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 26,999
- Popularidade
- #766
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1,090
- ISBN
- 1,017
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 97