Keith Baker
Reckoning
Pbk published March 2001 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747255539
Keith Baker
Engram
Pbk published March 2001 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747261830 Artwork by: Cover photograph: Keith Baker
A journalist and broadcaster in Northern Ireland for 35 years, Keith Baker's first novel, Inheritance, has been published in the States, Canada, Italy, Germany, Holland and Israel. It was selected as a W H Smith Fresh Talent in 1996 and is now a syllabus book on the 'Modern Novel' English course at Queen's University, Belfast.
Keith Baker has built his reputation as a fast-paced and intriguing thriller writer. In Engram, his third novel, Baker uses his life experience in Northern Ireland and knowledge of Maine, U.S.A. to bring an international scope to his writing.
'...a book that is possibly the best of its kind to be written so far... The Irish Times on Inheritance
Keith Baker worked for the Belfast Telegraph from 1969 to 1982 and for BBC Northern Ireland from 1982 to 1997. He became BBC Northern Ireland's Head of News and Current Affairs, a position he held for six years at a time when journalism was dominated by The Troubles. During his leadership the BBC won a number of industry awards.
A keen musician, Keith Baker plays bass guitar with a vintage rock band. They occasionally perform in pubs in and around Belfast. It is, he says, 'a helpful therapy when the writing's going badly.
Keith Baker
Lunenburg
Pbk published March 2001 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747261849
'Vivid and frightening ... an intelligent thriller'
Times Literary Supplement
'Breathtaking ... if you buy no other thriller this year, buy this one'
Irish Times
A journalist and broadcaster in North Ireland for 35 years, Keith Baker's first novel,
Inheritance, is now the syllabus book on the 'Modern Novel' course at Queen's
University, Belfast.
Keith Baker has built his reputation as a fast-paced thriller writer. In Lunenburg, his
fourth novel, the dark secrets of a small town in Nova Scotia are uncovered only to
bring about more mystery and intrigue.
Keith Baker has been a high profile journalist since 1962. A former Head of News
and Current affairs for BBC Northern Ireland, he now lives in County Down. He has
spent all his professional life in Northern Ireland journalism, most significantly with
the Belfast Telegraph from 1969 to 1982, and with the BBC from 1992 to the present
day. Through his experience Keith Baker has a background knowledge that makes his
novels stand out from others in the genre as frighteningly credible.
Jeremy Dronfield
Burning Blue
Pbk published January 2001 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747264848
In his darker moments, Martin Rosenthal can't help but compare the trajectory of his
life with that of his grandfather, Frank. On the one hand, school, A-levels, going to
University. On the other, an American citizen volunteering for the RAF as a fighter
pilot, a hero of the Battle of Britain, transferring to bombers when the US enters the
war, a final blaze of glory...
For Martin, his own earth-bound existence seems like a scale-model of the real thing,
his obsession with aeroplanes a pale imitation of Frank's duels with air, and fire and
gravity. But all that is about to change.
First the enigmatic Chrisantha introduces Martin to the weightless pleasure and
crashing pain of love, then her brother Rupert involves him in a break-in at the
University lab, searching for evidence of a secret weapons project. Suddenly Martin's
life is spiralling out of control, leading him into a dangerous labyrinth of truths, lies
and illusions, where death - and the ghost of his grandfather - lurk at the centre.
Suspenseful and incisive work...' The Times
'His plots rival lain Banks' The Mirror
Jeremy Dronfield has had a very varied career path initially as a school drop-out from
Croesyceiliog Comprehensive School and ultimately as a post graduate student at
Cambridge University. His interests are as diverse as his road to authorship, and
include archaeology and the involvement of hallucinatory drugs in Palaeolithic ritual,
on which he wrote his thesis.
James Patterson
Cradle and All
Pbk published January 2001 by Headline Feature at £6.99
ISBN: 0747266980.
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