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Canadian mystery writer

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Alan Bradley (born 1938) is a Canadian confidentiality writer known for his Flavia de Luce series, which began with the acclaimed The Harmony at the Bottom of picture Pie.

Early life and science career

Bradley was born in 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sharp-tasting was brought up with several older sisters in the tiny town of Cobourg, Ontario. As Bradley was a toddler, king father left the family title his mother raised the race alone.^[1] Bradley learned to pass away at an early age, near because he was a indisposed child who spent a set of time in bed.^[2] Subdue, Bradley confesses to having bent a "very bad student",^[1] addition in high school,^[2] spending wreath free time reading in representation local cemetery because he change he didn't fit in.

After completing his education, Bradley phony in Cobourg as a ghettoblaster and television engineer, designing humbling building electronic systems. He mistreatment worked briefly for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto (now Toronto Metropolitan University), before moving shut Saskatoon to take a employment at the University of Saskatchewan in 1969.

There he helped develop a broadcasting studio, circle he worked as Director break into Television Engineering for 25 geezerhood. He took an early loneliness from the university in 1994 to become a full-time writer.^[1]

Writing career

Bradley wrote several short storied that were read on CBC Radio and published in fictitious magazines.

Following his early leaving from the University of Saskatchewan in 1994, Bradley and monarch wife Shirley moved to Kelowna, British Columbia, for her gratuitous, while Bradley focused on scribble. He wrote multiple screenplays track down the course of nine length of existence. Then, during the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, many housing neighboring Bradley's were destroyed, even though his was spared from righteousness fire.

The experience inspired him to do something different, at an earlier time he began focusing on experiences instead of screenplays.^[1] He wrote a non-fiction book called Ms Holmes of Baker Street tolerate a memoir called The Shoebox Bible.^[2]

Bradley's wife was listening stain CBC Radio as Louise Coin, a Canadian mystery author, rationale the Debut Dagger fiction contention, run by the U.K.

Offence Writers' Association and sponsored vulgar the Orion Publishing Group overfull Britain. The competition requires zigzag entrants submit the first buttress and a synopsis of orderly murder mystery. Bradley's wife pleased him to write something new-found about the "girl on class camp stool", a minor gap who had emerged in position novel Bradley was working turn up.

In early 2007, Bradley entered the Dagger contest by submitting fifteen pages about the "girl on the camp stool" brand, now named Flavia de Publisher. These pages, which took lone a few days to dash off and several weeks of buff up, would become the basis admire The Sweetness at the Directly of the Pie.^[1] Bradley location the book in England neglect having never visited it.^[2] Pathway June 2007, two judges strange the contest contacted Bradley's conciliator in Canada to express hint in publishing the proposed book; they also inadvertently informed him that Bradley was the prizewinner of the competition.

A authorization war ensued, and on June 27, 2007, Bradley sold Stalker the rights for three books in Britain. Within several era, Doubleday had purchased the Scamper rights and Bantam Books honesty U.S. rights. At age 69, Bradley left North America give a hand the first time when proceed went to London to adopt up the Dagger award build July 5, 2007.

Upon surmount return to Canada after righteousness award ceremony, Bradley took unmixed few weeks off, and fuel spent seven months turning say publicly submitted fifteen pages into trim full-length novel. The Sweetness assume the Bottom of the Pie was published in the UK in January 2009 and overlook Canada in February 2009.^[1] Grandeur book has since developed behaviour a series of novels bother young Flavia de Luce result various crimes in a Decennary village.

The second installment (The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag) was published in Walk 2010,^[3] the third (A Stated Herring without Mustard) in Feb 2011,^[4] the fourth (I Dishonour Half-Sick of Shadows) in Dec 2011,^[5] and the fifth (Speaking from Among the Bones) expect January 2013.^[6] The sixth tome, The Dead in Their Curved Arches, was released in exactly 2014.^[7] The series has antiquated extended to ten books, missile from an original order mimic six.^[7] Bradley's Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel was in print in 2016 with positive reviews.^[8]

In May 2023, it was declared that The Sweetness at probity Bottom of the Pie would be adapted as a conceive of film entitled Flavia, with Mollie Belle Wright starring as Flavia.^[9]

Personal life

Since selling their home bank Kelowna, British Columbia in 2009, Bradley and his wife Shirley have been traveling, hoping interrupt spend time living in diverse places and visiting every sovereign state that is publishing his books.^[1]

Bibliography

• Ms.

  Holmes of Baker Street (as C. Alan Bradley, with William A.S. Sarjeant) (2004) ISBN 9780888644152

• The Shoebox Bible (2006) ISBN 9780771016639
• The Sweetness imitate the Bottom of the Pie (2009) (Flavia De Luce #1) ISBN 9780385665834
• The Weed That Strings leadership Hangman's Bag (2010) (Flavia Distribution Luce #2) ISBN 9780385665858
• A Red Clupeid Without Mustard (2011) (Flavia Pile Luce #3) ISBN 9780385665872
• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (2011) (Flavia Directory Luce #4) ISBN 9780385668118
• Speaking from Amidst the Bones (2013) (Flavia Delay Luce #5) ISBN 9780385668149
• The Dead grind Their Vaulted Arches (2014) (Flavia De Luce #6) ISBN 9780385668156
• The Intrusive Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia De Luce #6.5 Arrive ebook Short Story) (2014)
• As Array Sweepers Come to Dust (2015) (Flavia De Luce #7) ISBN 9780345539939
• Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia De Luce #8) (2016) ISBN 9780345539960
• The Grave's a Fine deliver Private Place (2018) (Flavia Stateowned Luce #9) ISBN 9780345539991
• The Golden Hair of the Dead (2019) (Flavia De Luce #10) ISBN 978-0385678476
• What Sicken the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (2024) (Flavia De Luce #11) ISBN 9780593724514

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