Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers.

At university, he attempted to write, however he found this difficult and put it down to lack of life experience.

He didn’t start to write again until he was in his late twenties and started to work as a journalist.

Although, he studied biochemistry at university, he decided against that career path and went to train at the Daily Mirror on their Graduate Training Scheme and trained to be a journalist.

He wrote his first book, which was bought by Harper Collins and he never looked back!

His career to date stands as follows: he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shoveled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant and worked for the Inland Revenue.

Throughout his life, he has traveled around the world, had more jobs than one average person has in a life time, however he has always had writing as his passion.

From being a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong to being a bar man, he has led an interesting life so far.

Although he has always had writing in his life, he began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages.

He has also written for television shows such as, 'London's Burning', 'The Knock' and the BBC's 'Murder in Mind' series.