GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Peter May

Born and raised in Scotland Peter has lived in France for more than 20 years and has dual French-British nationality.

Author of 31 books which have sold over 15 million copies in more than 40 countries, he is the recipient of national literary awards in the UK, France, Denmark and the USA

May was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published author at twenty-six. In his late twenties, he switched his creative talent to television and became one of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists. He garnered more than 1000 TV credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.

His breakthrough novel was The Blackhouse. After being turned down by all the major UK publishers, the first of the The Lewis Trilogy - The Blackhouse - was published in France where it was hailed as "a masterpiece" by the French national newspaper L'Humanité and went on to win the French literature award the Prix Cezam.

The Blackhouse was published in English by award-winning publishing house, Quercus. It went on to become an international best seller, and won the US Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel at Bouchercon in Albany NY, in 2013.

In 2021 Peter won the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library. This award recognizes the popularity of an author's body of work with readers and users of libraries. The judges committee is made up of librarians from across the country.

Peter’s Website: http://www.petermay.co.uk/