Graham Hurley
Graham Hurley (born 1 November 1946) at Clacton on Sea, is an English crime fiction writer. Formerly based in Portsmouth but now relocated in the West Country, he is best known for creating the character of DI Joe Faraday, following several standalone novels. He contributed a column to The Portsmouth News.
Graham Hurley
- Name
- Graham Hurley
- Born
- 1 November 1946
- Birthplace
- Clacton-on-Sea, Essex
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- writer · film director · screenwriter · documentary filmmaker
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Languages
- English
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Graham Hurley (born 1 November 1946) at Clacton on Sea, is an English crime fiction writer. Formerly based in Portsmouth but now relocated in the West Country, he is best known for creating the character of DI Joe Faraday, following several standalone novels. He contributed a column to The Portsmouth News.
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Biography
Biography
He received both a BA and an MA in English from the University of Cambridge. He worked as a script-writer with Southern Television before becoming a researcher and later a director. For TVS He filmed the discovery of the seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck (with American oceanographer Robert Ballard) and produced ITV's account of Richard Branson's attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon.
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Key facts
• Name — Graham Hurley • Born — 1 November 1946 • Birthplace — Clacton-on-Sea, Essex • Genre — Crime
Standalone Novels
Standalone Novels
• Rules of Engagement • Reaper • The Devil's Breath • Thunder in the Blood • Sabbathman • The Perfect Soldier • Heaven's Light • Nocturne • Permissible Limits
DI Joe Faraday series
DI Joe Faraday series
• Turnstone • The Take • Angels Passing • Deadlight • Cut To Black • Blood and Honey • One Under • The Price of Darkness • No Lovelier Death • Beyond Reach • Borrowed Light • Happy Days (2012) • Backstory (2012) - A collection of stories filling the back story of the series
D/S Jimmy Suttle series
D/S Jimmy Suttle series
• Western Approaches (2012) • Touching Distance (2013) • Sins of the Father (2014) • The Order of Things (2015)
Wars Within series
Wars Within series
• Finisterre (2016) • Aurore (2017) • Estocada (2018) • Raid 42 (2019) • Last Flight To Stalingrad (2020) • Kyiv (2021) • Katastrophe (2022) • The Blood of Others (2023) • Dead Ground (2024)
Enora Andressen series
Enora Andressen series
• Curtain Call (2019) • Sight Unseen (2019) • Off Script (2020) • Limelight (2020) • Intermission (2021)
Adaptations
Adaptations
Gétévé and France Télévisions started adapting Hurley's Faraday stories in 2011 through 90 minute television films under the title Deux Flics sur les Docks (lit. Two Cops on the Docks). Jean-Marc Barr and Bruno Solo headline the series, portraying Joe Faraday and Paul Winter respectively. By the end of 2013, six films have been produced and broadcast, adapting the novels Angels Passing, Cut To Black, One Under, Blood and Honey, Deadlight and The Take.
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- 1.A Life of crime writing - Author Graham Hurley, Hampshire Life
- 2.Interview de Graham Hurley
- 3.Graham Hurley sur le site des Editions Blake Friedmann
- 4.G. Hurley : « There's no better place than Pompey. Everything's imploding: family breakdowns, drugs, alcohol, despair » (Il n'y a pas de meilleur endroit que Pompey. Tout y explose : les familles, la drogue, l'alcool, le désespoir) Pompey policiers, Graham Hurley talks to Chris Wiegand, The Guardian, 30/01/2008
- 5.G. Hurley : « I decided that I would try to deliver a series as procedurally authentic as I could possibly make it » (J'ai décidé que j'essayerais d'écrire une série aussi authentique sur le plan procédural qu'il m'était possible de le faire) Pompey policiers, Graham Hurley talks to Chris Wiegand, The Guardian, 30/01/2008
- 6.G. Hurley : « Lorsque j’ai commencé à écrire des polars, j’ai rencontré par hasard un mordu de romans policiers qui lisait un des miens. C’était le chef de la police de Portsmouth ! Il m’a ouvert toutes les portes » (Pleins phares sur... Graham Hurley)
- 7.M. Connelly : « L'inspecteur Faraday est une création remarquable » (Pleins phares sur... Graham Hurley)
- 8.Graham Hurley sur le site des Editions du Masque
- 9.Graham Hurley sur le site Folio Policier
- 10.Le Pompey de Graham Hurley transposé au Havre, Blog Planète Polars, 19/04/2011
- 11.Bruno Solo et Jean-Marc Barr : une belle amitié est née, Pure people, 27/10/2011
- 12.Le Havre : tournage de nouveaux épisodes de la série télévisée "Deux flics sur les docks". francetvinfo.fr.
- 13.Inédit : 2 flics sur les docks, avec Bruno Solo et Jean-Marc Barr, Blog TV News, 17/10/2011
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