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Stephen Gregory

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Stephen Gregory (b. 1952) was born in Derby, England, and earned a degree in law from the University of London. He worked as a teacher for ten years in various places, including Wales, Algeria, and Sudan, before moving to the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales to write his first novel, The Cormorant (1986), which won Britain’s prestigious Somerset Maugham Award and drew comparisons to Poe. The book was also adapted for film as a BBC production starring Ralph Fiennes. Two more novels, both set in Wales, followed: The Woodwitch (1988) and The Blood of Angels (1994). After the publication of The Blood of Angels, he worked in Hollywood for a year with Oscar-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist). More recently, he has published The Peril ...more

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Do you plan to write any more stories featuring birds or have you tired of that theme?

Stephen Gregory Hi Charlene, sorry again I'm pretty slow replying to your questions. I don't know why I'm so interested in birds as a theme of my writing. I do rememb…moreHi Charlene, sorry again I'm pretty slow replying to your questions. I don't know why I'm so interested in birds as a theme of my writing. I do remember that I've enjoyed watching them and reading about them since I was a little boy scrambling through thickets and undergrowth and climbing trees in a Welsh woodland. I remember drawing them all over my school exercise books, and when I was only eight or nine I had a clearly formulated daydream of one day living in a log cabin in a deep Alaskan forest, trudging through the snow with my dog beside me and a hawk on my shoulder ... the closest I ever got to living that dream was my earliest experiences as a writer in Snowdonia, Wales, wonderful days and months in wintry mountain cottages, writing The Cormorant and then The Woodwitch ... and yes, even 25 years later, I'm still writing about the beaches and mountains of Wales, and birds, in my PLAGUE OF GULLS. (less)

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Stephen Gregory My most recent book PLAGUE OF GULLS .... to tell the truth, me and my wife Chris, we're both a bit nostalgic out here in Brunei, been here too long an…moreMy most recent book PLAGUE OF GULLS .... to tell the truth, me and my wife Chris, we're both a bit nostalgic out here in Brunei, been here too long and yearning to be back in England or Wales or specifically in our lovely ancient house in France. So when, in between the necessities of school stuff, I get unleashed onto my old computer and get stuck into another of my dark nasty books! I can't help writing about my favourite places back home ... so PLAGUE OF GULLS is me stuck in our little spare room in a hot bungalow surrounded by jungle in north Borneo, me fantasizing a story in faraway Wales and the cool lovely mountains of Snowdonia. And of course I like writing about birds. Check out all my books for the running theme of wild countryside and wild birds ... in a year or two, if we ever escape this steamy tropical backwater, I'll be walking in a frosty woodland in France, me and my wife and dog, and there'll be jays and rooks and the blackbird and wren .... and fresh cool air!(less)

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	The Cormorant 3.54 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 1987 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woodwitch 3.31 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1988 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wakening the Crow 3.44 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Waking That Kills 3.16 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood of Angels 3.95 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plague of Gulls 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perils and Dangers of This Night 3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Dark Wings: Stories 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postcards from the Edge: A poetry collection of life's experiences 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angels on the Ceiling: Poems to Encourage in a Crisis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I went up to the tower. I thought I might find the woman and the boy there, in bed together. Or the boy and his father, enjoying some quality time, a dead man and a mad boy chuckling and joshing and exchanging their stories of being dead and being mad.”
― Stephen Gregory, The Waking That Kills

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“A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything.”
― Stephen Gregory, The Waking That Kills

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“Flies struggled from her mouth, only to ignite into brilliant golden sparks. Hundreds of them, thousands of them burst from her into their individual pinprick of fire which then was gone for ever, like the distant implosion of a dying star...”
― Stephen Gregory, The Woodwitch

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