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Christopher Fowler

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

March 26, 1953

Website

http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/

Genre

Crime, Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories

Influences

Mervyn Peake, Evelyn Waugh, EM Forster, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dicken ...more

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Christopher Fowler is an English novelist living in London, his books contain elements of black comedy, anxiety and social satire. As well as novels, he writes short stories, scripts, press articles and reviews.

He lives in King's Cross, on the Battlebridge Basin, and chooses London as the backdrop of many of his stories because any one of the events in its two thousand year history can provide inspiration

In 1998 he was the recipient of the BFS Best Short Story Of The Year, for 'Wageslaves'. Then, in 2004, 'The Water Room' was nominated for the CWA People's Choice Award, 'Full Dark House' won the BFS August Derleth Novel of The Year Award 2004 and 'American Waitress' won the BFS Best Short Story Of The Year 2004. The novella 'Breathe' won BF ...more

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Fun With Inanimate Objects

Choosing a children’s book these days is a complicated matter. First there’s the question of age-appropriate levels, and if it’s an old book, the matter of political correctness. If it’s classed as Young Adult you’ll find yourself surrounded by fiction featuring teens in nightmarish dystopias facing the kind of moral challenges that would reduce an […]

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Christopher Fowler’s books

Average rating: 3.89 · 53,523 ratings · 6,380 reviews · 198 distinct works • Similar authors

	Full Dark House (Bryant & May, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 6,896 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water Room (Bryant & May #2) 3.90 avg rating — 3,565 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bryant & May Investigate the Victoria Vanishes (Bryant & May #6) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,621 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seventy-Seven Clocks (Bryant & May #3) 3.89 avg rating — 2,564 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Second Staircase (Bryant & May #4) 3.95 avg rating — 2,336 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Corridor (Bryant & May #5) 3.97 avg rating — 2,137 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Loose (Bryant & May #7) 4.07 avg rating — 1,961 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invisible Code (Bryant & May #10) 4.05 avg rating — 2,211 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Off the Rails (Bryant & May, #8) 4.13 avg rating — 1,985 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood (Bryant & May #9) 4.10 avg rating — 1,838 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Christopher Fowler

“It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”
― Christopher Fowler, Ten Second Staircase

tags: city, ideas, past, rain, shadows, strangeness, streets

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“Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Memory of Blood

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“I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May Investigate the Victoria Vanishes

tags: society

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What should the June 2015 book be for the Literary Horror Group?

Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne du Maurier

5 votes 27.8%

Ana Kai Tangata: Tales of the Outer the Other the Damned and the Doomed by Scott Nicolay

4 votes 22.2%

Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas

3 votes 16.7%

Nyctophobia by Christopher Fowler

2 votes 11.1%

Haunted Castles by Ray Russell

2 votes 11.1%

Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

1 vote 5.6%

Burnt Offerings (write-in)

1 vote 5.6%

Hanns Heinz Ewers Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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