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David Hewson is the author of several travel books, at least six standalone novels and the Nic Costa series. He used to be a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times, but gave up journalism in 2005 to focus full time on his novels. He lives in Kent, England.
David originates from the North of England and did not travel abroad until he was 21. However he read about Italy and Greece at the library and grew up dreaming of the Mediterranean.
Rights for the Nic Costa series have been sold to a number of countries, but he is particularly proud of the fact that the series has been translated into Italian, "When you're a foreigner writing about their country, normally they won't touch you. They'll look at a book and say this is all wrong, so it's great that an Italian publisher should have picked it up."
The Nic Costa series:
A Season for the Dead
The Villa of Mysteries
The Sacred Cut
The Lizard's Bite
The Seventh Sacrament
The Garden of Evil
Dante's Numbers (The Dante Killings, US)
The Blue Demon (City of Fear, US)
The Fallen Angel
Carnival of The Dead
David Hewson's website
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I always did want to write…
That much is true anyway. I grew up in and around the small
seaside retirement town of Bridlington in Yorkshire. For a few years
my parents ran a small children's home in a bleak position on the
coast. It closed every winter. They had no car. But the place had a
library so, weekend after weekend, that was there you'd find me,
reading everything from Victorian classics to old American crime and
science titles someone, in their ignorance, had dumped on us. In
order to write fiction you need the ability to create an imaginary
world, with imaginary people, inside your own head. A childhood like
this helps an awful lot. Perhaps you don't need the dysfunctional
part to get there, but I don't know many writers who had what the
rest of the world would call a normal upbringing.
Wanting to write and being able to write are two different
things, of course. I worked down an amusement arcade for a while,
handing out change, taking money on the bingo stand. When I'd saved
enough I ...
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