Luke Jennings (born 1953) is a British author, dance critic and journalist. Jennings trained as a dancer at the Rambert School, was one of the students of the

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and Integrated dance pedagoge

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, studied Indian languages, and produced and directed a

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documentary filmed in Bombay. As a journalist, Jennings has written for '' Vanity Fair'' and ''

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,'' and has reported from locations around the world, including Moscow. He was dance critic for ''

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'' and also wrote dance-related articles for ''

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Jennings' first novel, ''Breach Candy'' (1993), follows a recently retired ballerina and an intelligent-but-wounded television director researching a

documentary in Mumbai. Jennings' novel, ''Atlantic'' (1995), which takes place in a cruise ship in the post-war years, was nominated for the

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. ''Beauty Story'' (1998) is a novel about a young actress who vanishes from a 16th-century English castle where she was filming a fragrance commercial. The acknowledgements section in ''At Risk'' (2004) by

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indicates that it was written with the help of Luke Jennings: "Huge thanks are also due to Luke Jennings whose help with the research and the writing made it all happen."Stella Rimington, At Risk; Arrow, 2005, p456 ''Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing''—a 2010 memoir about fishing, and about "childhood innocence, paternal love, and his friendship with the charismatic, enigmatic" man who was later killed by the IRA while working as an intelligence officer in Ireland—was shortlisted for the 2010 BBC

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and for the William Hill prize. With his daughter, Jennings co-wrote the ''Stars'' youth fiction series (''circa'' 2013), about teenagers at a performing arts school. Jennings co-authored ''The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet'' (2014). Jennings' 2017 book ''

Codename Villanelle ''Codename Villanelle'' is a 2017 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings. A compilation of four serial e-book novellas published from 2014 to 2016, the novel was published in the United Kingdom by John Murray as an e-book on 29 June ...

'', a compilation of three serial Kindle edition

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s published between 2014 and 2016, was the basis for

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's ''

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'' television series. Though his 2018 sequel '' Killing Eve: No Tomorrow'' diverged from the television show, the books and show are said to "share common DNA" because of Jennings' continued collaboration with the show's creators. A third volume of the Villanelle series, '' Killing Eve: Die For Me'', was released on 19 March 2020. ‘’Lifelines-An Anthology of Angling Anecdotes, and More…‘’ NAROD Publishing, 2021. A collection of 27 short stories concerning angling by 27 different authors, including “Homecoming” by Luke Jennings.

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