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Oliver Harris (b. 1978) is a British author of crime fiction and thrillers, who lives in South Korea.

Biography

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Oliver Harris was born 1978, in North London.[1] He studied at University College London, gaining a first degree in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare studies.[1] He undertook research at the London Consortium,[2] where his 2013 PhD thesis (Between nature and the gods: Lacan's return to antiquity[3]) was supervised by Professor Steve Connor.[4] In 2004, he graduated with an MA in creative writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia.[5][6]

In 2017, Harris was reported to be living in South Korea.[1] He works as a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Writing School within the the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University.[7]

Writing career

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Harris's first crime novel, The Hollow Man was published in 2011. This novel's protagonist, Nick Belsey, a corrupt detective, featured in two further novels (published in 2014 and 2016). In 2019, Harris published A Shadow Intelligence, with a new protagonist: Elliot Kane, a British spy. Another Elliot Kane novels was published in 2021, before Harris returned to Nick Belsey in 2022 and then again to Elliot Kane in 2024.

Harris has been described as "a gin-dry, Chandleresque kind of writer'"[8] His Nick Belsey novels were identified by Val McDermid as "bringing a hard edge to stories of contemporary policing – stories that embrace corruption, disloyalty and darkness."[9]

Harris has written for The Times Literary Supplement.[10] He also mentors other authors and aspiring authors.[11][12]

Works

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Nick Belsey series

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  • The Hollow Man. London: Jonathan Cape. 2011. ISBN 978-0224091220.
  • Deep Shelter. London: Jonathan Cape. 2014. ISBN 978-0224091237.
  • The House of Fame. London: Jonathan Cape. 2016. ISBN 978-0224101875.
  • A Season in Exile. London: Little, Brown. 2022. ISBN 978-1408712924.

Elliot Kane Series

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Non-fiction

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Freelancer Tom (20 July 2017). "Author Interview: Oliver Harris". Indie Light. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  2. ^ Taunton, Matthew (December 2022). MacCabe, Colin (ed.). "The London Consortium and Me: Memoir of an Experiment in Doctoral Education". Critical Quarterly. 64 (4). John Wiley & Sons Ltd: 20–26. doi:10.1111/criq.12694. ISSN 1467-8705. Retrieved 14 August 2025. The peers I learned most from ... were working in all sorts of areas: ... Oli Harris on myth in psychoanalysis.
  3. ^ Harris, Oliver. "Between nature and the gods: Lacan's return to antiquity". Birkbeck Library. Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  4. ^ Harris, Oliver (5 August 2016). "Acknowledgements". Lacan's Return to Antiquity. Routledge. p. vi. doi:10.4324/9781315743929. ISBN 9781315743929. Retrieved 14 August 2025. I'd like to thank Steve Connor for sharing his knowledge, irreverence and intellectual excitement, offering supervision with equal measures of support and trust.
  5. ^ "Karen Taylor, Trevor Wood and Oliver Harris nominated for Dagger Awards". New Writing. UEA Publishing Project. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  6. ^ "Oliver Harris". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  7. ^ "Staff at Manchester Writing School". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  8. ^ Cooke, Rachel (28 December 2015). "Take shelter from festive excesses with a good, creepy book". The Observer. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  9. ^ "Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction". The Guardian. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  10. ^ "Oliver Harris". TLS. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  11. ^ "Our Mentors - Oliver Harris". Gold Dust. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  12. ^ "Oliver Harris". The Ruppin Agency. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
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