About Christopher Brookmyre

Christopher Brookmyre is the author of eleven published novels to date, the latest being ATTACK OF THE UNSINKABLE RUBBER DUCKS, published August 2007. Click here for details of all eleven.

Chris won the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEBODY LOSES AN EYE and, as is tradition, a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig was named after the winning novel: see the photograph of Christopher Brookmyre and the piglet now known as 'AFAG'.

On accepting the award, Chris said:

"My favourite PG Wodehouse quote is 'It is seldom difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman and a ray of sunshine'; today I'd like to think that I resemble the ray of sunshine."

QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING was the winner of the Critics' First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year in 1996.

The short story Bampot Central was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Short Story Dagger in 1997.

BOILING A FROG won the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective in 2000.

Chris's wikipedia entry is here.