Stav Sherez (born 1970) is a British novelist whose first novel, ''The Devil's Playground'', was published in 2004 by
Penguin Books
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The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate
Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of ...]
for his fifth novel, ''The Intrusions'', the third outing for his detectives Jack Carrigan and Geneva Miller.
[Lea, Richar]
"Stav Sherez wins crime novel of the year for 'moving the genre forward'"
''The Guardian'', 19 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
Biography
Born in 1970, Sherez grew up in London and attended
Latymer Upper School
(Slowly Therefore Surely)
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and the
University of Leeds
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. Sherez's second novel, ''The Black Monastery'', was published by
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel ...
in April 2009. From 1999 to 2004 he was a main contributor to the music magazine ''
Comes with a Smile
''Comes with a Smile'' was a quarterly music-focused fanzine published in the United Kingdom between June 1997 and February 2006. The title originates from a lyric in Red House Painters' song "24".
In 2001, ''Comes with a Smile'' released a no ...
''. From December 2006 he has been literary editor of the ''
Catholic Herald
The ''Catholic Herald'' is a London-based Roman Catholic monthly newspaper and starting December 2014 a magazine, published in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and, formerly, the United States. It reports a total circulation of abo ...
''.
Bibliography
Novels
*''The Devil's Playground'' 2004 (
Penguin
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) – Shortlisted for the
CWA John Creasey Best First Novel Award
*''The Black Monastery'' 2009 (
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel ...
)
*''A Dark Redemption'' 2012 (
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel ...
) – Shortlisted for the
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate
Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of ...
2013
*''Eleven Days'' 2013 (
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel ...
) – Shortlisted for the
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate
Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of ...
2014
*''The Intrusions'' 2017 (
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel ...
) – Winner of the
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate
Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of ...
2018
Short stories
*"God Box", published in ''Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by the Fall'', Serpent's Tail 2007
*"Hotel Room", published in ''The Flash'', Social Disease 2007
References
External links
Author website
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21st-century British novelists
Living people
1970 births
British male novelists
21st-century British male writers