Ed Halliday

Ed Halliday is not your usual writer of dark humour. It has often been remarked by agents and reviewers alike that my style of writing is unusual but in a refreshing and entertaining way. There is no rambling prose put there just for the sake of filling pages and therefore fulfilling the page count criteria of a publisher, every word is there for a purpose. This is why my stories make engaging reading that keeps you turning the pages. The reason my style is so different to most is simple. I have had no formal training whatsoever, no writers workshops, no degree in creative writing, not even an ’A’ level in English. Everything that goes onto the page is untainted by the restrictive rigours imposed by years of being told how to write, it is done by instinct and a desire to produce something that I myself would enjoy reading. Born in the industrial north of England in the late sixties, I spent the formative years of my childhood in France where I was educated in the French state system before finishing my education in an English boarding school. I have recently returned to France to live and to write, hence the frequent references in my books to the country of my childhood