Stuart Turton

Turton was born and raised in Widnes, England and educated at University of Liverpool, where he received a BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/11/made-in-widnes-stuart-turton|title=Stuart Turton on Widnes: 'It was famous for its smell. On bad days, the air punched you in the nose'|last=Turton|first=Stuart|date=2019-01-11|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-08-20|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} After graduating, he spent a year working as a teacher in Shanghai,{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/long-march-to-mutual-understanding-79170.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/long-march-to-mutual-understanding-79170.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Long march to mutual understanding|date=2003-11-20|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-08-26}} before becoming a technology journalist in London. He moved to Dubai to become a travel journalist, living there for three years until he returned to London to write his first novel.

Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (released in the US as The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle{{cite web |title=Is the name any sort of homage to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo |url=https://www.goodreads.com/questions/1344604-always-been-curious-since-i-love-both |website=goodreads.com |accessdate=25 March 2019}}) won the 2018 Costa Book Award for First Novel{{Cite web|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/welcome/|title=Costa Book Awards {{!}} Behind the beans {{!}} Costa Coffee|website=www.costa.co.uk|access-date=2019-08-20}} and has sold in 28 languages.{{Cite web|url=https://marsh-agency.co.uk/recent-successes/|title=Recent Successes {{!}} Marsh Agency|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-26}} Since publication, it has sold over 200,000 copies{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/harryillers/status/1164572951074738177|title=Some excellent news: @stu_turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle has now sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone! What a bloody brilliant achievement and huge congratulations also to @Alison_Edits and @BloomsburyRaven on phenomenal work.|last=Illingworth|first=Harry|date=2019-08-22|website=@harryillers|language=en|access-date=2019-08-26}} in the UK. In an interview given to The Guardian, he described writing the book as "just awful".{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/07/costa-first-novel-award-winner-stuart-turton-the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle|title=Costa first novel award winner recalls 'awful' time writing his book|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=2019-01-07|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-08-20|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle received a number of other accolades. It won Best Novel in the 2018 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards.{{cite web |title=Books Are My Bag Readers Awards |url=https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards |website=National Book Tokens |accessdate=19 October 2020}} That same year, it was shortlisted for Debut Book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/british-book-awards/2019-debut-year|title=2019 Fiction Debut Book of the Year {{!}} British Book Awards {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|access-date=2019-07-23}} and longlisted for a New Blood Dagger and Gold Dagger at the Crime Writers' Association Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://thecwa.co.uk/news/cwa-announce-longlists-for-prestigious-crime-writing-daggers-2|title=The Crime Writers' Association|website=thecwa.co.uk|access-date=2019-07-23}}

Val McDermid selected Turton to appear on her New Blood panel at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/uncategorized/new-blood-3/|title=New Blood|website=Harrogate International Festivals|date=20 April 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-23}} In 2019, it was shortlisted for Best Debut Novel at the Strand Magazine Critics Awards{{Cite web|url=https://strandmag.com/and-the-nominees-are-the-nominees-for-the-2019-strand-critics-awards/|title=And the Nominees Are... The Nominees for the 2019 Strand Critics Awards {{!}} Strand Magazine|date=2019-05-13|website=Strand Mag|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-23}} and longlisted for the Glass Bell Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldsborobooks.com/article/the-glass-bell-2019-longlist|title=The Home of Signed First Editions|last=Books|first=Goldsboro|date=2019-07-23|website=Goldsboro Books|language=en|access-date=2019-07-23}} The Japanese edition of the novel, translated by Kazuyo Misumi and published in 2019, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade (2010-2019).{{cite magazine |date= 23 July 2021|title= 2010年代海外本格ミステリ ベスト作品選考座談会|trans-title= Best Translated Honkaku Mystery of 2010s|url= https://giallo-web.jp/back_number/no_77/|language= Japanese|magazine= Giallo|location= Tokyo, Japan|publisher= Kobunsha}}

Turton's second novel, The Devil and the Dark Water, was published in October 2020.{{cite web |title=The Devil and the Dark Water |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-devil-and-the-dark-water-9781408889640/ |website=Bloomsbury.com |publisher=Bloomsbury |accessdate=19 October 2020}} It won the 2020 Books Are My Bag Fiction Award,{{cite web |title=Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2020 |url=https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/vote |website=National Book Tokens |accessdate=19 October 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019103127/https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/vote |archivedate=19 October 2020}} and was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Dagger at the Crime Writers' Association Awards.{{Cite web|title=The Crime Writers' Association|url=https://thecwa.co.uk/the-daggers/categories/ian-fleming-steel|access-date=2021-05-27|website=thecwa.co.uk}} It was Waterstones Thriller of the Month,{{Cite web|title=Books of the Month {{!}} Waterstones|url=https://www.waterstones.com/campaign/books-of-the-month|access-date=2021-05-27|website=www.waterstones.com|language=en}} and selected for Between the Covers, a seven-part book TV programme on BBC Two hosted by Sara Cox.{{cite news |title=Celebrity authors and panellists announced for Between The Covers |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/between-the-covers |accessdate=19 October 2020 |work=BBC.co.uk |agency=BBC |date=15 September 2020}} It has sold in 20 countries.{{Cite web|title=The Devil and the Dark Water|url=http://www.dhhliteraryagency.com/the-devil-and-the-dark-water.html|access-date=2021-05-27|website=D H H literary agency|language=en}} The Japanese edition of the novel, translated by Kazuyo Misumi and published in 2022, was nominated for the 2023 Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mystery Fiction in Translation.{{cite web|url= http://www.mystery.or.jp/en/|title= Mystery Writers of Japan is pleased to announce a new award for Mystery Fiction in Translation.|publisher= Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc.|website=www.mystery.or.jp|date=2023-04-27|access-date=14 May 2023}}{{cite web|url= http://www.mystery.or.jp/search/result?kwd=%E7%BF%BB%E8%A8%B3%E5%B0%8F%E8%AA%AC%E9%83%A8%E9%96%80|title= 第76回日本推理作家協会賞受賞作決定|publisher= Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc.|website=www.mystery.or.jp|date=2023-05-11|access-date=14 May 2023|language=ja}}

In December 2020 it was announced that Netflix had bought the rights to a seven-part series adaptation of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, produced by BBC Studios-owned House Productions, and to be created and written by Sophie Petzal. But in January 2023 Netflix canceled its planned adaptation.{{cite web |title=Netflix Cancels 'The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle' Adaptation After Two Years in Development (Exclusive) |date=17 January 2023 |website=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510211514/https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/netflix-adaptation-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle-canceled-1235487213/ |archive-date=10 May 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/netflix-adaptation-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle-canceled-1235487213/}}

In April 2021, The Devil and the Dark Water was optioned for television by Urban Myth. It will be written by Howard Overman, with Turton serving as an executive producer on the project.{{cite news |last1=Hackett |first1=Tasmin |title=Netflix UK picks up Turton's Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/netflix-uk-turtons-debut-seven-deaths-evelyn-hardcastle-1230668 |access-date=30 December 2020 |work=The Bookseller |date=16 December 2020}}

In November 2020, Turton signed a contract to write two more "high-concept" mystery novels for Bloomsbury. The first of these, released in 2024, is called The Last Murder at the End of the World. He has described them as "nuts".{{Cite web|title=Raven Books acquires two more from Turton in 'major' deal {{!}} The Bookseller|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/raven-books-acquires-two-more-stuart-turton-major-deal-1225504|access-date=2021-05-27|website=www.thebookseller.com}}

• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)
• The Devil and the Dark Water (2020){{Cite book|last=Turton|first=Stuart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dakyEAAAQBAJ|title=The Devil and the Dark Water|date=2020|publisher=Raven Books|isbn=978-1-4088-8964-0|language=en}}
• The Last Murder at the End of the World (2024). {{ISBN|9781526665089}}.{{cite web |title=The Last Murder at the End of the World (publisher's announcement) |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/last-murder-at-the-end-of-the-world-9781526665089/ |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}}

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• [https://twitter.com/stu_turton?lang=en Stuart Turton] on Twitter

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