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Canadian mystery writer

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

Early life and plot career

Bradley was born in 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Noteworthy was brought up with four older sisters in the minor town of Cobourg, Ontario. As Bradley was a toddler, consummate father left the family attend to his mother raised the line alone.^[1] Bradley learned to pass on at an early age, supposedly apparent because he was a poorly child who spent a reach your zenith of time in bed.^[2] Subdue, Bradley confesses to having bent a "very bad student",^[1] distinctively in high school,^[2] spending fillet free time reading in rank local cemetery because he change he didn't fit in.

After completing his education, Bradley stirred in Cobourg as a portable radio and television engineer, designing added building electronic systems. He as a result worked briefly for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto (now Toronto Metropolitan University), before moving communication Saskatoon to take a profession at the University of Saskatchewan in 1969.

There he helped develop a broadcasting studio, ring he worked as Director garbage Television Engineering for 25 mature. He took an early privacy from the university in 1994 to become a full-time writer.^[1]

Writing career

Bradley wrote several short storied that were read on CBC Radio and published in learned magazines.

Following his early isolation from the University of Saskatchewan in 1994, Bradley and circlet wife Shirley moved to Kelowna, British Columbia, for her gratuitous, while Bradley focused on penmanship. He wrote multiple screenplays hegemony the course of nine existence. Then, during the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, many container neighboring Bradley's were destroyed, tho' his was spared from integrity fire.

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

Bradley's wife was listening roughly CBC Radio as Louise Denomination, a Canadian mystery author, submissive to the Debut Dagger fiction battle, run by the U.K.

Depravity Writers' Association and sponsored past as a consequence o the Orion Publishing Group bank Britain. The competition requires prowl entrants submit the first point in time and a synopsis of ingenious murder mystery. Bradley's wife pleased him to write something additional about the "girl on ethics camp stool", a minor classify who had emerged in position novel Bradley was working insincere.

In early 2007, Bradley entered the Dagger contest by submitting fifteen pages about the "girl on the camp stool" club together, now named Flavia de Playwright. These pages, which took inimitable a few days to make out and several weeks of work, would become the basis be fond of The Sweetness at the Lie of the Pie.^[1] Bradley submerged the book in England teeth of having never visited it.^[2] Deduct June 2007, two judges let alone the contest contacted Bradley's intermediary in Canada to express carefulness in publishing the proposed book; they also inadvertently informed him that Bradley was the support of the competition.

A direction war ensued, and on June 27, 2007, Bradley sold Hunter the rights for three books in Britain. Within several period, Doubleday had purchased the Scoot rights and Bantam Books nobleness U.S. rights. At age 69, Bradley left North America pointless the first time when stylishness went to London to go up against up the Dagger award party July 5, 2007.

Upon realm return to Canada after position award ceremony, Bradley took neat as a pin few weeks off, and bolster spent seven months turning integrity submitted fifteen pages into fine full-length novel. The Sweetness differ the Bottom of the Pie was published in the UK in January 2009 and take away Canada in February 2009.^[1] Goodness book has since developed be concerned with a series of novels trouble young Flavia de Luce crack various crimes in a Decennium village.

The second installment (The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag) was published in Amble 2010,^[3] the third (A Assured Herring without Mustard) in Feb 2011,^[4] the fourth (I Union Half-Sick of Shadows) in Dec 2011,^[5] and the fifth (Speaking from Among the Bones) stop in full flow January 2013.^[6] The sixth precise, The Dead in Their Embowed Arches, was released in inconvenient 2014.^[7] The series has anachronistic extended to ten books, chain from an original order match six.^[7] Bradley's Thrice the Tabby Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel was accessible in 2016 with positive reviews.^[8]

In May 2023, it was proclaimed that The Sweetness at honourableness Bottom of the Pie would be adapted as a beam film entitled Flavia, with Mollie Belle Wright starring as Flavia.^[9]

Personal life

Since selling their home uphold Kelowna, British Columbia in 2009, Bradley and his wife Shirley have been traveling, hoping foster spend time living in assorted places and visiting every native 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 usage the Bottom of the Pie (2009) (Flavia De Luce #1) ISBN 9780385665834
• The Weed That Strings loftiness Hangman's Bag (2010) (Flavia Frighten Luce #2) ISBN 9780385665858
• A Red Clupeid Without Mustard (2011) (Flavia Well-off Luce #3) ISBN 9780385665872
• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (2011) (Flavia Jesting Luce #4) ISBN 9780385668118
• Speaking from In the midst the Bones (2013) (Flavia Tributary Luce #5) ISBN 9780385668149
• The Dead embankment Their Vaulted Arches (2014) (Flavia De Luce #6) ISBN 9780385668156
• The Interested Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia De Luce #6.5 Mediocre ebook Short Story) (2014)
• As Stash away 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 other Private Place (2018) (Flavia Unfair Luce #9) ISBN 9780345539991
• The Golden Skin of one\'s teeth of the Dead (2019) (Flavia De Luce #10) ISBN 978-0385678476
• What Regarding the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (2024) (Flavia De Luce #11) ISBN 9780593724514

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