![]() ![]() It was making a virtue of limitations, really. The whole premise of the series is that they’re not allowed to do anything I’m basically writing about people being in an office. When I decided I could write about people who were barred from a greater knowledge, I realised it was a way into the genre. I’d read a fair amount of spy fiction but hadn’t written any, largely because I felt there was no point, not having the knowledge of actually having worked in that area. What led you to write an espionage series? Herron met me in Oxford, where he has lived ever since leaving Newcastle to study English in 1981. ![]() He is on the shortlist (for a fifth time) of the Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year award (announced 23 July), for Slough House, the seventh in the series, out in paperback. ![]() In 2013, he won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for the second instalment, Dead Lions, which Herron’s original publisher rejected on account of the poor sales of the first book, Slow Horses, now an Apple TV+ drama starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. M ick Herron, 58, is the author of 19 books, most recently Bad Actors, the eighth novel in his Jackson Lamb series about a group of demoted MI5 agents. ![]()
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