Authors Christopher Brookmyre and Glen Michael at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is hosting two Meet The Author events:

The first, on Tue October 21, features well-known crime writer Christopher Brookmyre, who will be talking about his career in writing and latest novel "A Snowball In Hell".

This is followed on Thu Nov 6th, by Glen Michael, who will be talking about his career in television and his new book, "Life's a Cavalcade".  

Christopher Brookmyre's A Snowball In Hell :

The events on 9/11 opened the eyes of Simon Darcourt, professional assassin par excellence, to the sad fact that his skills were now not only redundant, they were arguably anachronistic: any lunatic could take out a target if he's prepared to sacrifice himself to do so.  (Never mind the expertise, where's the fun in that?)  The Incredible Exploding Arabs were clearly going to be the only show in town though and Simon needed to come up with a new concept.  So here it is: the reality show the public really want to see, the star-studded entertainment they're truly craving when they're forced to settle for all that insipid fly-on-the-wall tedium.  It's called I'm a Celebrity and I'm Never Getting Out of Here, and viewers must 'vote' to keep his B list captives alive.  By posting real-time coverage on the internet, he has viewing figures that are literally to die for.

Does policewoman Angelique De Xavier stand a chance of stopping him?  Someone who could certainly help is her ex-lover and magician Zal Innez, who is highly talented in deception and subterfuge.  But he is a wanted man and she doesn't know how to locate him.  Meanwhile, as the clock counts down, a whole load of celebs line up to prove they are dying to be famous...

A Snowball in Hell is Christopher Brookmyre's latest intelligent satire and a thriller with exhilarating pace.

Christopher Brookmyre is a Sunday Times top ten bestselling author and the only writer to have won two Sherlock Awards.  He is the winner of the 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, and his novel All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye won the 2006 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Fiction. In 2005, Brookmyre made his stand-up comedy debut at The Comedy Store in London.  A regular guest on BBC radio, he worked as a journalist before his career as a novelist took off.  His first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, was a television hit starring James Nesbitt.  He lives near Glasgow with his wife, his son and his St Mirren season ticket, and has a burgeoning sideline as a football pundit.

Praise for Christopher Brookmyre's books:

Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks

' A hilarious and heartening satire' - Daily Telegraph   

'An intelligent debate about the war between rational knowledge and wilful, fact-free debate... A gripping whodunit that twists and turns until the very end' - Financial Times

 
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil

'One of the funniest writers in Britain' - The Guardian

'Comic, caustic, clever' - Literary Review

 
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

'Funny, electric and captivating' - The Times

 
Be My Enemy

'Christopher Brookmyre is a mischievous satirist, and here he is at his best' - Daily Telegraph

 
Sacred Art of Stealing

'A thriller, love story, social satire and a warning against taking absurdism too seriously' - Time Out

 

Boiling a Frog

'Hiaasen is one of America's finest satirists. Brookmyre is Britain's' - Observer

 
A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away

'Chris Brookmyre is a genius' - Mirror

'Brookmyre has no equal' - Maxim

 
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night

'The next star of the genre seems set to be Christopher Brookmyre' - Mark Lawson

 
Not the End of the World

'Thrillingly unpleasant' - Esquire

 
Country of the Blind

'Sassy, irreverent, stylish' - The Times

 
Quite Ugly One Morning

'A comedy with political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp' - Literary Review