Welcome to the web-site of Nottingham novelist, David Belbin. The site includes a biography, a bibliography and a regularly updated diary discussing matters that might be of interest to readers. As a professional writer, I’m a firm believer in Samuel Johnson’s dictum: No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. That said, a web-site is a useful promotional tool and readers will only keep coming back if the content is frequently refreshed. So it will be. Except when I’m away or immersed in writing a novel. There’ll probably be as much stuff about music as there is about literature. Indeed, the diary element begins with an account of the 2003 Glastonbury festival, following on from the 2000 diary (researching my novel Festival) that…

I was born in Sheffield, moved to Leicester when I was two and West Kirby, on the Wirral, when I was five. I’m the eldest of four children. When I was sixteen, we moved to Colne, in Lancashire, where my dad still lives. I went to university in Nottingham. I liked the city so much I’ve stayed here ever since. I still have strong ties with Sheffield though: my sister, youngest brother and oldest friend all live there. I did a degree in English Literature and American Studies. After graduating, I tried to write a novel but ended up becoming more of a full time activist – for CND, my trade union and the Labour Party. After eighteen months on the dole, I did a…

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS 1990 The Foggiest (Scholastic Hippo) 1993 Shoot The Teacher (Scholastic Point Crime = PC) 1994 Avenging Angel (PC)Final Cut (PC) 1995 The Beat: Missing Person (PC)Break Point (PC)The Beat: Black and Blue (PC) 1996 The Beat: Smokescreen (PC)Deadly Inheritance (PC)Dark Journey (Reed)The Beat: Asking For It (PC) 1997 The Beat: Dead White Male (PC)The Beat: Losers (PC)The Beat: Sudden Death (PC)Three Degrees of Murder: The David Belbin Collection (omnibus containing Avenging Angel, Final Cut and Deadly Inheritance) 1998 Love Lessons (Scholastic Press)The Beat: Night Shift (PC)Haunting Time (short stories – Five Leaves)The Beat: Victims (PC) 1999 Dying For You (PC, Chivers audio book)The Beat: Suspects (PC)Nicked (Barrington Stoke)Stanley Middleton At Eighty (Five Leaves, co-edited with Prof. John Lucas) 2000…