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Jeff Dawson

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Jeff Dawson is a journalist, author and scriptwriter. Amongst other things, he pens Real Dictators, the award-winning historical podcast (200m downloads) that goes out on Spotify, Apple, BBC Sounds and elsewhere.

He was, for many years, a feature writer for The Sunday Times' Culture section (interviewees including Robert De Niro, George Clooney, Dustin Hoffman, Hugh Grant, Angelina Jolie, Jerry Seinfeld and Nicole Kidman). Before that he was the US Editor of Empire magazine.

Jeff is the author of three non-fiction books — Tarantino/Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool (Cassell/Applause, 1995), Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup (Orion, 2001), which The Times rated "Truly outstanding", and Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster (We ...more

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Jeff Dawson Now here's a thing, a mystery that has been bugging me for years, decades even. It goes like this: I put a pair of socks into the washing machine yet,…moreNow here's a thing, a mystery that has been bugging me for years, decades even. It goes like this: I put a pair of socks into the washing machine yet, almost without fail, only one of them ever makes it out alive. In our house we have a massive spare laundry basket, our "sock orphanage", which is home to, literally, hundreds of single socks -- Dad's, Mum's, kids', anyone who's ever stayed. As a cosmic conundrum it is matched only by the Great Ballpoint Pen Riddle. You buy a packet of, say, fifty Bic biros, open them for household use, and within a few days they have vanished, not a pen to be found anywhere. I just don't know... Got to be a story in there somewhere.(less)

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Jeff Dawson Book-wise I'm planning out the next Ingo Finch adventure. He's the star of No Ordinary Killing btw.…moreBook-wise I'm planning out the next Ingo Finch adventure. He's the star of No Ordinary Killing btw.(less)

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Average rating: 3.87 · 815 ratings · 92 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Ordinary Killing (Ingo Finch, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 418 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cold North Sea (Ingo Finch, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 136 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool (Applause Books) 3.24 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell Gate (Ingo Finch, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Back Home: England and the 1970 World Cup 4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster 4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quentin Tarantino: Black Tie, White Noise 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ingo Finch in Paperback

The three Ingo Finch books are now all out in paperback, available at Amazon, Waterstones, Hive, etc. They're also out on audio via Audible and on CD. Thanks for everyone's support. Much appreciated. Hope you enjoy.

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“The speed with which information could now be transmitted was perplexing to all but the young.”
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“not from the Esperanza guest house itself.”
― Jeff Dawson, No Ordinary Killing