Rod Cookson is a writer who lives in Oxford with his wife and children.

 

His writing has won the Opening Lines Competition, been runner-up in the Page 100 Competition, received Top Picks for the Claymore Award (twice) and been shortlisted for numerous other prizes.

 

Rod's recreations include cheese in all its forms, football, the Beatles, cycling, tennis (real or otherwise), French wine, Italian food, the films of Ingmar Bergman and cats. His antipathies are the motor car, dishonesty in public life, the Daily Mail, craft beer and airports.

 

Favourite writers include JG Ballard, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edmund Crispin, MR James, Claire Keegan, Elmore Leonard, Daphne du Maurier, Cormac McCarthy, Aaron Sorkin, Richard Stark, Rex Stout, Dylan Thomas, Olga Tokarczuk and PG Wodehouse.