VJ Books Presents Alan Bradley!

Alan Bradley was born in Toronto and grew up in Cobourg, Ontario. With an education in electronic engineering, Alan worked at numerous radio and television stations in Ontario, and at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto, before becoming Director of Television Engineering in the media centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK, where he remained for 25 years before taking early retirement to write in 1994.

He became the first President of the Saskatoon Writers, and a founding member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. His children's stories were published in The Canadian Children's Annual, and his short story, Meet Miss Mullen, was the first recipient of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children's Literature.

His fiction has been published in literary journals and he has given many public readings in schools and galleries. His short stories have been broadcast by CBC Radio.

He was a founding member of The Casebook of Saskatoon, a society devoted to the study of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlockian writings. Here, he met the late Dr. William A.S. Sarjeant, with whom he collaborated on their classic book, Ms Holmes of Baker Street. This work put forth the startling theory that the Great Detective was a woman, and was greeted upon publication with what has been described as "a firestorm of controversy".

The release of Ms. Holmes resulted in national media coverage, with the authors embarking upon an extensive series of interviews, radio and television appearances, and a public debate at Toronto's Harbourfront. His lifestyle and humorous pieces have appeared in The Globe and Mail and The National Post.

In July of 2007 he won the Debut Dagger Award of the (British) Crimewriter's Association for his novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first of a series featuring eleven year old Flavia de Luce.

Alan Bradley lives in Malta, with his wife Shirley and two calculating cats.

Speaking From Among the Bones Signed First Edition

A Red Herring without Mustard Signed 1st UK Edition

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows Signed First Edition

Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag Signed First Edition

To see Alan Bradley's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.

Alan Bradley Bibliography

Flavia de Luce Series

·         The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

·         The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag

·         A Red Herring Without Mustard

·         Seeds of Antiquity

·         Death in Camera

·         The Nasty Light of Day

·         Speaking From Among the Bones

Other Books by Alan Bradley

·         The Shoebox Bible

·         Ms. Holmes of Baker Street