Details: 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.
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.
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."
He was raised and schooled in Barrhead, before attending the University of Glasgow. Chris is married to an anaesthetist and supports St Mirren F.C.
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21-02-2008 (1.25 MB)

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