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DAN SMITH

Born in 1970, the first eighteen years of my life were spent crossing the world in one life and being subjected to the rigours of a traditional English boarding school in another.

  I’ve  lived in many places including Sierra Leone, Sumatra, northern and central Brazil. I’ve even lived in Spain and in the Soviet Union, but now I’m settled in Newcastle with my wife and two young children to keep me on my toes. And, boy, do they keep me on my toes!

  Past jobs have varied from dishwasher extraordinaire (or, perhaps, just ordinaire), social security fraud (detecting it, not committing it), to a fistful of mundane office jobs, but throughout all of those things, I’ve always kept writing. Like most other writers, I just can’t help it.

In 2008, I signed a two book deal with The Orion Publishing Group. The first of those novels, DRY SEASON , was shortlisted for the  Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2011, and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The second novel, DARK HORIZONS is available in Orion hardback, and will be available in paperback in spring 2012.

My third novel THE CHILD THIEF is to be published in spring 2012, with a fourth novel to follow in 2013.