Simon Lelic Explained

Simon Lelic
Birth Name:	Simon Lelic
Birth Date:	1976
Birth Place:	Brighton, England
Occupation:	Novelist
Education:	University of Exeter
Period:	2010 – present
Genre:	Crime fiction, thrillers
Children:	3
Language:	English

Simon Lelic (^[1]) is a British novelist of mysteries and thrillers.

Life and career

Lelic was born in 1976 in Brighton. He studied history at the University of Exeter and then took a post-graduate course in Journalism. He worked as a freelancer and in business-to-business publishing before becoming a novelist, and has also owned an import/export company.^[2]

His first novel, Rupture (2010) won a Betty Trask Award in 2011.^[3] He has also written the Haven series of young adult thrillers; the first book, The Haven, was published in 2019.^[4]

Published works

• Rupture (US: A Thousand Cuts) (Picador/Viking, 2010)^{[5] [6]}
• The Facility (Mantle, 2011)^[7]
• The Child Who (Mantle, 2012)^[8]
• The House (US: The New Neighbors) (Berkley, 2017)^{[9] [10]}
• The Liar's Room (Berkley, 2019)^[11]
• The Search Party (Berkley, 2020)^[12]
• The Hiding Place (Penguin, 2022)^[13]

Haven

• The Haven (2019)
• Revolution (2019)
• Deadfall (2020)

External links

• • • Simon Lelic on Goodreads
• Simon Lelic at Fantastic Fiction
• Reviews at Publishers Weekly
• Profile at Penguin Random House
• Profile at Pan Macmillan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Simon Lelic at Goldsboro Books . Goldsboro Books . YouTube. 18 January 2010.
2. Web site: Simon. Lelic. About. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031180222/http://www.simonlelic.com/about . 31 October 2010 .
3. Web site: Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards . The Society of Authors . 9 June 2022 .
4. Web site: Jill . Murphy . The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic . review . The Bookbag . February 2019 .
5. News: Cathi . Unsworth . Rupture by Simon Lelic – review . The Guardian. 10 December 2010 .
6. Lois . Wilmoth-Bennett . A Thousand Cuts: A Novel . review . New York Journal of Books . 24 January 2011 .
7. News: Edmund . Gordon . The Facility by Simon Lelic – review . The Guardian. 22 January 2011 .
8. Web site: Robin . Leggett . The Child Who by Simon Lelic . review . The Bookbag . January 2012 .
9. Web site: Lesley . Mason . The House by Simon Lelic . review . The Bookbag . November 2017 .
10. Web site: The New Neighbors – Simon Lelic . review . Publishers Weekly . 2018 .
11. Web site: Kristin . Centorcelli . Book Review: The Liar's Room by Simon Lelic . Criminal Element . 25 January 2019 .
12. Web site: Barbara Lipkien . Gershenbaum . The Search Party by Simon Lelic . Book Reporter . 21 August 2020 .
13. Web site: The Hiding Place – Simon Lelic . Penguin UK . 9 June 2022 .