Brian McGilloway

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Brian McGilloway is an author hailing from Derry, Northern Ireland. He studied English at Queens University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a prestigious national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is currently Head of English at St. Columb's College, Derry.[1][2] McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called Borderlands. Borderlands was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel.[3]

In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series.[4] The sequel to Borderlands, Gallows Lane, was published in April, 2008.

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  1. ^ DOHERTY, HARRY. "McGilloway on the run", Derry Journal, 2008-03-14. Retrieved on 2008-05-31. 
  2. ^ St Columb's College Derry - English. Retrieved on 2008-05-31.
  3. ^ Burke, Declan. "Dark fiction that knows no boundaries", The Sunday Times, 2007-10-28. 
  4. ^ "'No-frills' authors move to Pan" (2007-03-23). Bookseller (Issue 5273): p10. ISSN 00067539. 
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