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Chris Gill

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Born

in The United Kingdom

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https://www.chrisdavidgill.com/

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics

Influences

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood.

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Chris Gill is an author who grew up in Yorkshire as part of a Dales family. As a proud Yorkshireman, he was able to draw on the landscape and voices of his home county whilst writing his first two novels, ‘Back Road’ and ‘The Butcher Boys’. This has given his work a powerful authenticity. 'Back Road' is published by Fisher King Publishing and 'The Butcher Boys' is also soon to be published by them.
Chris discovered his love of storytelling whilst travelling throughout Europe and Asia during the nineteen-nineties, when his passion for literary realism developed through observation of real life and the opportunity to read widely.
Determined to continue his learning journey upon returning to the UK, he read Politics and English at The Universi Chris Gill is an author who grew up in Yorkshire as part of a Dales family. As a proud Yorkshireman, he was able to draw on the landscape and voices of his home county whilst writing his first two novels, ‘Back Road’ and ‘The Butcher Boys’. This has given his work a powerful authenticity. 'Back Road' is published by Fisher King Publishing and 'The Butcher Boys' is also soon to be published by them.
Chris discovered his love of storytelling whilst travelling throughout Europe and Asia during the nineteen-nineties, when his passion for literary realism developed through observation of real life and the opportunity to read widely.
Determined to continue his learning journey upon returning to the UK, he read Politics and English at The University of York. In addition to studying, he wrote and produced various plays. ‘The Picnic’ won a Commendation for Outstanding Writing at The National Student Drama Festival.
After graduating, Chris spent a decade as a Further Education teacher, but never lost his ambition to become a traditionally published author. Throughout his time as a teacher, he matured as a writer by penning plays and short stories. He then devoted himself to what became his first published work with Fisher King Publishing, a novel about the battle between altruism and egotism, ‘Back Road’.
With a desire to develop his writing further, Chris joined a group of accomplished authors in Manchester, where he now lives with his teenage son, and began writing his second novel, ‘The Butcher Boys’. This labour of love was completed over eight years and is now also published by Fisher King. It is a story about how our need for identity can threaten what we hold most dear:
'In a Yorkshire Dales village in the nineteen-seventies, best mates Michael, a boy with a strong sense of tradition and family loyalty, and Jack, a boy drawn to new horizons, are there for each other through traumatic childhoods. But as they become men, set against the backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain and the fall of the Iron Curtain, their struggles for identity and the intense rivalry between their butchers’ shops threaten to destroy them.'
Chris is currently working on his third novel, a modern-day story exploring the ‘lives’ we present to the world and the lives we actually live.
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'Lovely book, full of detail about relationships and how they can go wrong, set in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.' Liz K.
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“Don't try to control your characters too much. Let them live and find their own way.”
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