Morag Joss
Morag Joss is the author of the three Sara Selkirk novels, set in Bath, the first of which, Funeral Music, was nominated for a Dilys Award by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Her fourth novel Half Broken Things won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger Award and was adapted as a TV film for UK national television, starring Penelope Wilton. The Night Following, Morag Joss's sixth novel, was one of six shortlisted (from over six hundred submissions) for the Edgar Award for best novel Her seventh novel, Among The Missing, is published in America by Random House in June Under the title Across The Bridge, it will be published by Alma Books in September Morag Joss lives and works in Hampshire.
Genres: Mystery, General Fiction
Who is Morag Joss?
Morag Joss is an English-born Scottish writer.
She is the author of six novels, including the Sara Selkirk series, and Half Broken Things, which won the CrimeWritersAssociationSilverDagger Award. She beganwriting in after a shortstory of hers was runner-up in a nationalcompetitionsponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine. A visit to the RomanBaths with crimewriter P.D. Jamesgerminated the plot of her first novel, Funeral Music, the first in the Sara Selkirk series. It was nominated for a DilysAward for the year's best mysterypublished in the USA.
Her laternovels have movedincreasinglytowardsliterary fiction. In she was a Heinrich Böll writer in residence on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.
Half BrokenThings was adapted as a television film in , starringPenelope Wilton.
In her sixth novel, The NightFollowing won a covetedEdgarAwardnomination in the Best Novel category.
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Morag Joss grew up on the west coast of Scotland. Her first Sara Selkirk novel, Funeral Music, was nominated by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association for the Dilys Award for the year&#;s favorite mystery. Her fourth novel, Half Broken Things, won the CWA Silver Dagger Award. She received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Night Following. She is the author of eight novels. Morag lives in rural Hampshire, in the south of England, in a converted stable.
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Dr Morag Joss
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
School of Education, Humanities and Languages
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Morag Joss is the Subject Coordinator for Creative Writing at Brookes. She is the award-winning author of the three Sara Selkirk novels, Half Broken Things, Puccini’s Ghosts, The Night Following, Among the Missing (Across the Bridge) and Our Picnics in the Sun. Her work has been translated into several languages and her fourth novel, Half Broken Things, was adapted as a film for ITV, starring Penelope Wilton and Daniel Mays. She has also written for television, and writes short stories for print and broadcast. Her prizes and shortlistings include the CWA Silver Dagger, the USA Edgar Award for best novel, and residencies at the Heinrich Böll house on Achill, Ireland, and at Casa Ecco, Como, Italy. Her recent work includes new libretti for operas by Donizetti and Offenbach. Prior to joining Brookes, she held Fellowships at the universities of Reading and Southampton, and taught Creative Writing at Oxford University. She has also been a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and for the National Writers Cent
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