Martyn Bedford

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Dr. Martyn Bedford is a British author.

The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers. His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post "Best First Work" Award. He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.

Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire with his wife and two young daughters.

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Island of Lost Souls (Bloomsbury, 2006)
  • The Houdini Girl (Viking/Allen Lane, 1999)
  • Acts of Revision (Black Swan, 1997)