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Tony Parsons


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Tony Parsons was born in 1955 in Essex. Although he had already written a novel at the age of seventeen, he worked at the Gordon's gin distillery in London until summer 1976, when he started working for the NME (New Musical Express) as a punk journalist. This took him on the road with bands like The Sex Pistols.

He married Julie Burchill, a fellow NME journalist, and they had a son, Bobby, before divorcing.

He has a regular column in The Mirror and participates in the BBC arts programme, Newsnight Review. He has also written for, among other publications, The Face, Marie Claire, The Daily Mail, Arena, The Guardian, Elle, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Sunday Times, GQ and Red.

He has now re-married, and lives in London.
 

Genres: Mystery, General Fiction, Historical
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Harry Silver
   1. Man and Boy (1991)
   2. Man and Wife (2002)
   3. Men from Boys (2010)
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DC Max Wolfe
   1. The Murder Bag (2014)

     aka The Murder Man

   1.5. Dead Time (2015)
   2. The Slaughter Man (2015)
   2.5. Fresh Blood (2016)
   3. The Hanging Club (2016)
   4. Die Last (2017)
   4.5. Tell Him He's Dead (2018)
   5. Girl On Fire (2018)
   6. #Taken (2019)
   7. Murder for Busy People (2025)
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Novels
   Platinum Logic (1981)
   One for My Baby (2001)
   The Family Way (2004)
   Stories We Could Tell (2005)
   My Favourite Wife (2008)
   Starting Over (2009)
   Catching the Sun (2012)
   Your Neighbour's Wife (2021)
   The People Next Door (2022)
   Who She Was (2023)
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Collections
   Departures (2011)
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Series contributed to
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Tony Parsons recommends
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The Fury (2024)
Alex Michaelides
"Alex Michaelides is the grand master of the modern mystery. The Fury reads like Hitchcock with a heart, or Agatha Christie running amok on a wind-whipped Greek island. A tale of old friends and buried emotions ready to explode, all set on in an idyllic island rendered so perfectly you can smell the jasmine, the ouzo and the Aegean Sea.The Fury will, quite literally, blow you away. Totally brilliant."
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The Trial (2023)
(Adam Green Mystery, book 1)
Rob Rinder
"This is a book that takes you to the dark heart of the criminal justice system. They are all here - the good, the bad, the innocent and the guilty. I have not enjoyed a legal thriller this much since Grisham's The Firm."
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The Scarlet Papers (2023)
Matthew Richardson
"Smart, slick and totally gripping . . . The Scarlet Papers is always credible, always startling and almost painfully human. A total triumph."

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Awards
British Book Award Book of the Year winner (2001) : Man and Boy


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