The Offcuts Drawer

Mark Billingham - Crime Fiction Novelist & Screenwriter

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Best-selling crime fiction novelist and screenwriter Mark Billingham shares the bits of writing in his offcuts drawer with host Laura Shavin.

Cast: Keith Wickham, Chris Pavlo, Emma Clarke and Christopher Kent.

Warning: This episode contains strong language.

Mark Billingham is one of the UK's most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel Of The Year Award as well as the Sherlock Award for Best British Detective and been nominated for seven CWA Daggers. His standalone thriller IN THE DARK was chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year by the Times and his debut novel, SLEEPYHEAD was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 books that had shaped the decade. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.

A television series based on the Thorne novels was screened in Autumn 2010, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne and a BBC series based on the standalone thrillers IN THE DARK and TIME OF DEATH was shown in 2017. His latest novel CRY BABY, a prequel to the best-selling SLEEPYHEAD has just been published at time of broadcast.

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