Background

Nicholas Blincoe was born in 1965, in Rochdale, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Education

After briefly studying art at Middlesex Polytechnic Nicholas attended the University of Warwick where he studied Philosophy, gaining a Ph.D. in 1993.

Career

Nicholas is the author of several novels, has written episodes for television, including for the 'Waking the Dead' BBC series, and made his theatre debut with Cue Deadly, a noir thriller, staged in 2003. His first novel, Acid Casuals (1995), was set in a fictionalised version of Manchester's Hacienda nightclub, and his next two novels, Jello Salad (1997), and Manchester Slingback (1998), look at the changes that clubland and gay culture have brought to the UK. The latter novel won the 1998 Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger for Fiction. The Dope Priest (1999) and his most recent novel, Burning Paris (2004), reflect life in Palestine, where he has a second home with his Palestinian-born wife.

Nicholas is also the author of a novel set in the fashion world, White Mice (2002), the short story collection, My Mother Was a Bank Robber (1998), and co-editor of the anthology, All Hail the New Puritans (2000), being a co-founder of the New Puritans movement which advocates a clean, minimalist, strongly narrative prose style. In 2003, he also co-edited Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement.

Also a critic and journalist, Nicholas Blincoe wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph until 2006. He has been writing regularly for The Guardian since 2007. His latest book is A Book of Wonder (2008), edited with Alannah Weston.

Achievements

• Nicholas Blincoe is best known as a founding member of the New Puritans literary movement and a co-editor of the anthology All Hail The New Puritans.

Works

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  • Manchester Slingback

    (Manchester’s Bowie Boys confront a dark secret Fifteen ye...)

  • Burning Paris

    (When James Beddoes, a former financial journalist, moves ...)

  • More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine

    (By turns tragic and uplifting, More Noble Than War is the...)

  • Acid Casuals

    (Sex, drugs, and disco: just a day in the life of Manchest...)

  • White Mice

    (Jamie is nineteen and should be in college, and his siste...)

  • Jello Salad

    (A dangerously moreish mix of Tarantino violence and Almod...)

  • Bethlehem: Biography of a Town eBook: Nicholas Blincoe: Kindle Store

    (Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it fe...)

References

• Contemporary Authors A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
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