Mick Herron

Mick Herron is an English crime and spy novelist, born in Newcastle upon Tyne and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English.

He wrote the Oxford mysteries featuring Zoë Boehm and several standalone novels before turning to the Slough House series, which begins with Slow Horses (2010) and follows a band of disgraced MI5 officers exiled to a shabby London office under the sour Jackson Lamb. The series was adapted as the Apple TV+ programme Slow Horses.

His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Dead Lions and the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Oxford.