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    Mo Hayder

    Mo Hayder left school at 15. Gifted with intelligence and determined to shape her own future she worked as an actress in TV and film, barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator, and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She had an MA in film from the American University in Washington, DC, and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University, UK.

    She wrote 11 crime novels under the name Mo Hayder, and her fifth novel, RITUAL, was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Crime 2009 and was voted Best Book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. GONE, her seventh novel, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Two of her books, THE TREATMENT and RITUAL, have been made into films, and her novel WOLF was nominated for Best Novel in the 2015 Edgar Awards and is currently being adapted for the BBC.

    Prior to her diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease in December 2020, she had completed THE BOOK OF SAND and the first drafts of three more books in this series of speculative fiction, from which she took her greatest personal writing satisfaction. She passed away in July 2021 as a result of MND. She lived her life as a creative artist, never afraid to challenge her personal boundaries or those set by the establishment.

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    Mo Hayder

    Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)
    3.89 avg rating — 24,330 ratings — available 1999 — 3 editions
    The Treatment (Jack Caffery, #2)
    4.03 avg rating — 13,363 ratings — publicized 2001 — 14 editions
    The Devil raise Nanking
    3.92 avg judgment — 11,629 ratings — published 2004 — 89 editions
    Gone (Jack Caffery, #5)
    4.04 avg rating — 10,140 ratings — promulgated 2010 — 59 editions
    Poppet (Jack Caffery, #6)
    4.01 avg evaluation — 9,445 ratings — published 2013 — 46 editions
    Ritual (Jack Caffery #3)
    3.75 avg rating — 9,139 ratings — accessible 2008 — 30 editions
    Wolf (Jack Caffery, #7)
    4.18 avg cave — 8,024 ratings — published 2014 — 50 editions
    Skin (Jack Caffery, #4)
    3.82 avg rating — 8,012 ratings — available 2009 — 65 editions
    Hanging Hill
    3.88 avg crater — 6,494 ratings — published 2011 — 44 editions
    Pig Island
    3.37 avg rating — 6,671 ratings — promulgated 2006 — 59 editions

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    AVIVA-Berlin > Kultur



    AVIVA-BERLIN.de im Februar 2025 - Beitrag vom 13.09.2005


    Interview with British thriller author Mo Hayder
    Ursula Schatzl

    Daily life as a writer and mother? Inspiration and secret dreams? What does it take to write a book? Mo Hayder reveals all and talks about her newest page turner: ´Pig Island´



    AVIVA-Berlin: In June 2005 you were on a book tour across Germany together with Minette Walters. You visited Dresden, Cologne and Berlin. Did you enjoy this trip and which German city did you like best?
    Mo Hayder: Dresden - without doubt. The last time I was there was on Christmas night 1989, and to see how it´s changed was marvellous. Also I am so impressed by the way Europeans rebuilt their cities after the war - in England we didn´t have the same sense of trying to preserve the past.

    AVIVA-Berlin: You introduced your new book ´Tokyo´ to your readers. How does ´Tokyo´ differ from your first two books: ´Birdman´ and ´The Treatment´?
    Mo Hayder: It´s got much wider themes, and I´d say it´s more ambitious. Although it´s a thriller it has a strong historical element. It deals with the Nanking massacre in which something like 300,000 Chinese were butchered by the invading Japanese army.

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