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Luke Jennings


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The United Kingdom
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Luke Jennings is an author and the dance critic of The Observer. He trained at the Rambert School and was a dancer for ten years before turning to writing.

As a journalist he has written for Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Time, as well as for numerous British titles. He is the author of Blood Knots, a memoir, short-listed for the 2010 Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes, and of three novels: Breach Candy, Beauty Story, and the Booker Prize-nominated Atlantic. With Deborah Bull, he wrote The Faber Guide to Ballet, and with his daughter Laura, the Stars fiction series for Puffin Books, about teenagers at a stage-school.

He is currently writing a follow-up to his 2017 thriller Codename Villanelle (John Murray). The Villanelle titles are the ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 49,890 ratings · 4,831 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors
Codename Villanelle (Killin...
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No Tomorrow (Killing Eve, #2)
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Endgame (Killing Eve #3)
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“Without predators, people who can think the unthinkable, and act without fear or hesitation, the world stands still. You are an evolutionary necessity.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle
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“In silence lies safety.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle
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“Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle
tags: killing-eve, love, obsession, toxic, villanelle, villaneve
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