Ian Sansom is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a former Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a former Writer-in-Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and he writes for The Guardian and The London Review of Books.
“Ian Sansom is as expertly comic as his hero is comically inept.” - London Times
“One of the most unlikely detectives you’ll ever come across.” - Daily Express
“[Sansom’s] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans” - Publishers Weekly
“Hang around for what promises to be a very enjoyable series.” - The Observer
