Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the
various tensions he draws on for his award-winning Mamur Zapt
series. He returned there to teach, and retains a human rights
interest in the area. In between whiles his career has followed the
standard academic rake’s progress from teaching to writing to
editing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid
imitation of academic ones. He lives in London.
He is now a full-time writer. He was awarded the Crime Writers’
Association’s prestigious Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel
of the year for the ‘Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt’.
Michael Pearce is also the author of the crime novels featuring
Dmitri Kameron, set in Tsarist Russia of the 1890s.
Praise for Michael Pearce: ‘Pearce takes apart ancient history and reassembles it with beguiling wit and colour’ Sunday Times ‘As ever, Owen is wordly-wise, droll, and eminently at home in his adopted city’ Sunday Times ‘Enjoyable … original and charming’ Independent ‘The Mamur Zapt’s sly, irreverent humour continues to refresh the parts others seldom reach’ Observer
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