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Bryant & May

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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorArthur Bryant and John May are members of London's Peculiar Crime Unit.
Here's how their good friend and author Christopher Fowler describes them:
Arthur Bryant - originating from Whitechapel, tortoise-like, scarf-wrapped, esoteric, eccentric, bad-tempered and myopic. Wears a hearing aid and false teeth and uses a walking stick. [thanks Chris. You didn't have to be quite so honest! - Arthur]
John May - born in Vauxhall, taller, fitter, more charming and friendlier than his counterpart [oh, thanks again Chris. With friends like you, eh? - Arthur].
What The Press Have Said about Bryant & May and Christopher Fowler:
'The clash of temperaments between Bryant and May makes them great detectives' - Time Out
'...bawdy, unpredictable and at times hilarious, with a cast of wonderful grotesques' - The Guardian
'Fowler shocks and frightens while making us laugh out loud. An original, erudite and exciting whodunnit' - The Good Book Guide
'A writer of extraordinary imagination' - Sunday Express
'Very cleverly plotted…simultaneously scary and alluring' - Daily Telegraph
'Witty, charming, and informed about London, but - this is important - the storylines are vivid, tough and have a hard edge' - The Times
'Places Fowler in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers' - Publisher's Weekly

My Interests

Arthur Bryant Interests (this week): Crime, necromancy, skittles, witchcraft, old Superman comics, , The Life Of Thomas Chatterton, Great Locomotive Boiler Explosions, Victorian Naval Signals, Egyptian codebreaking, The Beano comic, the history of London and where you can get a decent haircut that doesn’t cost and arm and a leg.

John May Interests: Modern technology, crimefighting techniques, Mrs Monica Greenwood, how to stop my partner Arthur Bryant from upsetting everyone in London, my granddaughter.

Music:

(Bryant) Gilbert & Sullivan, Offenbach, Mozart, Shirley Bassey

(May) Michael Nyman, Rufus Wainwright, HedKandi, The Divine Comedy, De Phazz, Paris Combo, Amy Winehouse

Movies:

(Bryant) Brazil, The Happiest Days Of Your Life, The Lives Of Others, Amelie, La Communidad, Dracula Prince Of Darkness

(May) Pirates Of The Caribbean, 36 Quai Des Orfevres, V For Vendetta.

Television:

(Bryant) Hasn’t watched since ‘The Prisoner’ ended

(May) The League Of Gentlemen, Lost, The Avengers reruns, anything on BBC4.

Books:

Full Dark House
The Water Room
Seventy-Seven Clocks
Ten-Second Staircase
White Corridor

Heroes:

(Bryant) Sherpa Tensing, Florence Nightingale, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Maggie Smith

(May) Alan Turing, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama.

My Blog

Bryant & May Short Story

The Virus A detailed study of a real-time ordinary event sparks a story about the randomness of the new violence  bus death etc catapulted by a series of arbitrary mistakes. Thousands of people riot ...
Posted by Bryant & May on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:25:00 PST

White Corridor - Our Latest Adventure

Read about our latest exploits in Christopher Fowler's new Bryant & May novel 'White Corridor'. Buy OnlineThe unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of win...
Posted by Bryant & May on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:51:00 PST