For those readers looking to get into novels by mick herron, this section will help with that. Mick herron books list of books by author mick herron. Mick herron, author soho constable 25 336p isbn 9781569476437. His work has been shortlisted for the macavity, barry and shamus awards, and his novella dolphin junction was joint winner of the 2009 ellery queen readers award. Chris morgan jones, too, is writing a fine series of books. The first three books in the series are being republished prior to the release of the fourth, spook street, which comes out in february. Mick herron became a published novelist in 2003 with the novel down cemetery road. Below is a list of mick herrons books in order of when they were originally released.
Mick herrons slough house books in order fantastic fiction. Slough house is a dumping ground for british intelligence agents who have screwed up a case in any number of ways. The first book in cwa gold dagger awardwinning british espionage series starring a team. His work has been shortlisted for the macavity, barry and shamus awards, and his novella dolphin junction was joint winner of. The first, slow horses, was picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the daily telegraph, while the most recent, joe country, was a sunday times. If you read one spy novel this year, read real tigers. Theyve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. The plotting is insidiously clever, the dialogue is smart and funny, and there is a wonderful sense of time and place. In 2010, with slow horses, he began a spy series, entitled slough house, featuring mi5 agents who.
Slough house is where the washedup mi5 spies go to while away. Mick herrons six slough house novels have been shortlisted for eight cwa daggers, winning twice, and shortlisted for the theakston old peculier crime novel of the year three times. Mick herron takes a different approach from most other espionage writers. Mick is the author of the acclaimed jackson lamb series, the first of which, the steel daggernominated slow horses, was hailed by the daily telegraph as. This is the first novel in the oxford investigations series and was released in. Our cheap used books come with free delivery in the us. But before id reached the end, i knew id want to revisit this place and these people a realisation that caused me to radically rethink the original ending. Slough house is a repository for inconvenient or incompetent spooks. This is the difficult second book, and herron does a fair job of moving things on from slow horses and if youve not read that one, you must. In anticipation of mick herrons us release of london rules, the fifth book in his slough house series, i did a reread of the first four books. See all books authored by mick herron, including slow horses, and dead lions, and more on. Slough house is a dumping ground for british intelligence agents whove screwed up a case in any number of waysby leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a. Slow horses is the first novel in the slough house series by british author, mick herron. The first book in cwa gold dagger awardwinning british espionage series starring a team of mi5 agents united by one common bond.
In the first book, he showed the slough house screwups slowly emerge from their fog of incompetence to become agents of a sort. Mick herrons first jackson lamb novel, slow horses, was described as the most enjoyable british spy novel in years by the mail on sunday and picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the daily telegraph. In slough house, the london outpost for disgraced mi5 spies. British spy master mick herron returns with an explosive novella set in the same world as his multiple cwa daggerwinning slough house series john bachelor is the saddest kind of spy. The strangest is the head of the slow horses unit of mi5 this was not someone id like to meet in real life. Better still, read the whole series andrew taylor, the spectator. Mick herrons slough house series is being adapted for television by. Slight spoiler alert, mick herron in his previous books in the series has never been adverse to bumping off his characters and this book is no different. The publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. Slow horses ticked all the boxes for me and then some. Surely among the finest british spy fiction of the past 20 years metro. The finest new crime series this millennium mail on sunday. He is the author of the slough house series, including the cwa gold dagger winner dead lions, as well as a mystery series set in oxford. The second, dead lions, won the 20 cwa goldsboro gold dagger.
The third, real tigers, was shortlisted for the theakstons old peculier crime novel of the year. Mick herrons novels include the gold and steeldaggerwinning slough house series, about a bunch of messedup spies. Who most of the time are comedically useless but sometimes show flashes of brilliance and get good results against all the odds. Slow horses is a fine thriller its also a wonderfully funny, farcical, deeply cynical skewering of politics, bureaucrats, turf wars, and the great game. Mick herron the bondesque river cartwight and his group of defunct mi5 spies, headed by the irascible jackson lamb, will do anything to get back into the game. Mick herron books in order publication order of zoe boehm books. Slough house is a dumping ground for british londons slough house is where the washedup mi5. Joe country by mick herron is the sixth book in the slough house espionage series though home to mi5s least wanted, slough housethe setting for mick herrons ongoing series about unlikely spymaster jackson lamb and his menagerie of disgraced agentsis not without its secrets. Slow horses by mick herron 2010 the 20 best spy novels. In herrons book, there is no hiding under the desk. Originally published in 2010, slow horses is the first of mick herrons jackson lamb series about a band of misfits. Read more on other slough house books and an interview with mick herron here.
Slow horses slough house series, book 1 audio cd jan. It was only herrons morphing of the character that drew me into the story further. Real tigers is the third novel in his slow horses series. This was my first outing with herron, lamb and the slow horses.
He is the author of the oxford series, the slough house series, the standalone books this is what happened, nobody walks, and reconstruction, and the novella the list. The complete series list for slough house mick herron. Gary oldman will star in a small screen adaptation of mick herrons slough house books at apple, variety has learned titled slow horses after the first novel in the series, the show. Mick herron slough house mick herrons slough house series has catapulted him to the top rank of spy novelists at work right now. Booklist praise for mick herron mick herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way. Gary oldman to star in drama series slow horses at apple. Mick herron was born in newcastle and has a degree in english from balliol college, oxford. Jackson lamb thriller 6 book series by mick herron. Tv series for herrons slough house with gary oldman the. Jackson lamb thriller 1 jackson lamb thriller series by mick herron. Mick herrons slough house series is being adapted for television by apple tv, with gary oldman cast in the role of jackson lamb. His work has been nominated for the macavity, barry, shamus, and cwa steel dagger awards, and he has won an ellery queen readers. There is a lot going on in mick herrons slough house books and. Mick herron is a british novelist and short story writer who was born in newcastle and studied english at oxford.