Joan Brady is the author of Bleedout, Theory of War, winner of Whitbread Book of the Year Award

Joan Brady is the first woman and the only American ever to win Britain’s prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

To some degree, all my books have been thrillers. I like a good plot and a strong story. But Bleedout is the first I wrote as a thriller. It was brought out simultaneously in the US, the UK, Italy and German. Polish and Dutch editions followed shortly afterwards. Spanish and Japanese editions will come out soon.

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	Buy it … brilliant …move over John Grisham Mirror
	Stunning Telegraph
	Gruesome but enthralling Times Literary Supplement
	So sharp you can cut yourself on it Spectator
	Outstanding Time Out
	Astonishing Independent on Sunday
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31/03/2008
Joan Brady wins against a polluter in Totnes, Devon

In January of 2008, I won £115,000 after a long legal battle against a polluting industry in the small town of Totnes, Devon, where I lived. The money was not the only bright side to the experience; because of it, I began work on Bleedout...

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28/03/2008
AN ONGOING PROBLEM: How to secure rights to my name?

There really are two of us, and we are very different. A book buyer who reads one of us is unlikely to want to read the other. The problem is that readers have no way of telling us apart either on the net or in a store...

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