Leonardo St Paul's, London
Friday 13 June 2025
19:25 - 20:15
Linwood Barclay, and Andrew Child
Interviewed by Nadine Matheson
Linwood
Barclay was born 1955 in Darien,
Connecticut. After graduating high
school Barclay studied literature at Trent University in Peterborough. While at
university, he began a correspondence with Ross Macdonald that proved inspirational
for Barclay. They met once, at which time Macdonald inscribed one of his books
to Barclay, "For Linwood, who will, I hope, someday outwrite me."
After graduation, he could not sell any of his novels so he found work on a
number of local newspapers, starting his journalism career in 1977 at the
Peterborough Examiner, moved on to a small Oakville paper in 1979, and then to
the Toronto Star in 1981 where he was, successively, assistant city editor,
news editor, chief copy editor and Life section editor. He lives in Toronto
with his wife, Neetha and two children.
www.linwoodbarclay.com
Andrew Child was born in
Birmingham, England. He graduated from the University of Sheffield, ran an
independent theatre company, then worked in the telecommunications
industry for fifteen years before establishing himself as
a critically acclaimed author. He published nine novels under his own name
then – writing as Andrew Child – began a collaboration with his brother Lee to
continue the internationally-bestselling Jack Reacher series. He is married to
novelist Tasha Alexander and lives in Wyoming, USA.
www.andrewgrantbooks.com
www.jackreacher.com
Nadine Matheson has always been
passionate about writing and storytelling even though she studied History and
American Studies at university. She was born and lives in South-East London, is
a criminal solicitor and also teaches criminal law. In 2016, she won the City
University Crime Writing Competition and completed the Creative Writing
(Crime/Thriller Novels) MA at City University of London with Distinction in
2018. The Jigsaw Man, the first novel in the D.I. Anjelica Henley series, was
partly inspired by Nadine witnessing a body being pulled out of the River
Thames near her home when she was a teenager. Her most recent novel is The
Kill List.
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