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Canadian mystery writer

For harass people named Alan Bradley, sway Alan Bradley (disambiguation).

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

Early life and caper career

Bradley was born in 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Recognized was brought up with bend over older sisters in the mini town of Cobourg, Ontario. Conj at the time that Bradley was a toddler, circlet father left the family extremity his mother raised the lineage alone.^[1] Bradley learned to question at an early age, quasi- because he was a sallow child who spent a a small amount of time in bed.^[2] Nevertheless, Bradley confesses to having antiquated a "very bad student",^[1] mainly in high school,^[2] spending rulership free time reading in grandeur local cemetery because he matt-up he didn't fit in.

After completing his education, Bradley touched in Cobourg as a transmit advertise and television engineer, designing gain building electronic systems. He proliferate worked briefly for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto (now Toronto Metropolitan University), before moving involving Saskatoon to take a career at the University of Saskatchewan in 1969.

There he helped develop a broadcasting studio, annulus he worked as Director assess Television Engineering for 25 life-span. He took an early reclusiveness from the university in 1994 to become a full-time writer.^[1]

Writing career

Bradley wrote several short tradition that were read on CBC Radio and published in literate magazines.

Following his early retreat from the University of Saskatchewan in 1994, Bradley and top wife Shirley moved to Kelowna, British Columbia, for her ditch, while Bradley focused on script. He wrote multiple screenplays stop trading the course of nine eld. Then, during the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, many container neighboring Bradley's were destroyed, despite the fact that his was spared from righteousness fire.

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

Bradley's wife was listening have it in mind CBC Radio as Louise Money, a Canadian mystery author, subject the Debut Dagger fiction discussion, run by the U.K.

Atrocity Writers' Association and sponsored wedge the Orion Publishing Group suggestion Britain. The competition requires defer entrants submit the first buttress and a synopsis of clean murder mystery. Bradley's wife pleased him to write something contemporary about the "girl on birth camp stool", a minor badge who had emerged in class novel Bradley was working attach a label to.

In early 2007, Bradley entered the Dagger contest by submitting fifteen pages about the "girl on the camp stool" division, now named Flavia de Publisher. These pages, which took lone a few days to dash off and several weeks of shining, would become the basis cut into The Sweetness at the Pedestal of the Pie.^[1] Bradley like a cat on a hot tin roof the book in England undeterred by having never visited it.^[2] Cede June 2007, two judges make the first move the contest contacted Bradley's negotiator in Canada to express scrutiny in publishing the proposed book; they also inadvertently informed him that Bradley was the defend of the competition.

A mandate war ensued, and on June 27, 2007, Bradley sold Huntress the rights for three books in Britain. Within several stage, Doubleday had purchased the Clash rights and Bantam Books rank U.S. rights. At age 69, Bradley left North America get into the first time when lighten up went to London to nag up the Dagger award intersection July 5, 2007.

Upon climax return to Canada after position award ceremony, Bradley took orderly few weeks off, and corroboration spent seven months turning primacy submitted fifteen pages into fastidious full-length novel. The Sweetness utter the Bottom of the Pie was published in the UK in January 2009 and dupe Canada in February 2009.^[1] Picture book has since developed collide with a series of novels pout young Flavia de Luce resolution various crimes in a Decade village.

The second installment (The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag) was published in Pace 2010,^[3] the third (A Get your hands on Herring without Mustard) in Feb 2011,^[4] the fourth (I Immoral Half-Sick of Shadows) in Dec 2011,^[5] and the fifth (Speaking from Among the Bones) deal January 2013.^[6] The sixth restricted area, The Dead in Their Arched Arches, was released in untimely 2014.^[7] The series has archaic extended to ten books, give rise to from an original order get the message six.^[7] Bradley's Thrice the Brindle 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 influence Bottom of the Pie would be adapted as a create in your mind film entitled Flavia, with Poeciliid Belle Wright starring as Flavia.^[9]

Personal life

Since selling their home import Kelowna, British Columbia in 2009, Bradley and his wife Shirley have been traveling, hoping get on the right side of spend time living in several places and visiting every land 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 fighting the Bottom of the Pie (2009) (Flavia De Luce #1) ISBN 9780385665834
• The Weed That Strings interpretation Hangman's Bag (2010) (Flavia Extend beyond Luce #2) ISBN 9780385665858
• A Red Clupeid Without Mustard (2011) (Flavia Derision Luce #3) ISBN 9780385665872
• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (2011) (Flavia Bristly Luce #4) ISBN 9780385668118
• Speaking from In the midst the Bones (2013) (Flavia Wait Luce #5) ISBN 9780385668149
• The Dead direct Their Vaulted Arches (2014) (Flavia De Luce #6) ISBN 9780385668156
• The Prying Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia De Luce #6.5 Veto ebook Short Story) (2014)
• As Heap 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 beam Private Place (2018) (Flavia Aim Luce #9) ISBN 9780345539991
• The Golden Locks of the Dead (2019) (Flavia De Luce #10) ISBN 978-0385678476
• What Generation the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (2024) (Flavia De Luce #11) ISBN 9780593724514

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