Pat Gray

Pat Gray was born in Belfast. He is the author of five novels: Mr Narrator, and The Political Map of the Heart, an account of growing up in Belfast which won the World One Day Novel Cup and was published in an extended form in 2001. His satirical novel The Cat was re-issued in 2015 and has been translated into several languages. Dirty Old Tricks, his first detective novel, was published by Dedalus in 2020, followed in 2021 by The Redemption Cut.

He has worked extensively in Eastern Europe, but now lives in London.