Matthew Baylis
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Matthew Baylis | |
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Born | 1971 (age 49–50) Nottingham, England |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Matt Baylis, M. H. Baylis |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter and journalist |
Spouse(s) | Yes |
Children | Yes |
Matthew Baylis (born 1971), also known as Matt Baylis and M. H. Baylis, is a British novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
Early life[]
Baylis was born in Nottingham. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and spent most of his early years in Southport, Merseyside.[citation needed]
Career[]
A former storyliner on BBC One's flagship soap opera EastEnders, he adapted Catrin Collier's novel Hearts of Gold, set in the 1930s, for the screen, and this was broadcast as a two-parter on BBC One in July 2003.
He subsequently went with former EastEnders executive producer Matthew Robinson to Kenya, where he co-created, co-storylined and trained a team of local writers for a six-part drama pilot.[1] Robinson later invited him to Cambodia, to do the same on Taste of Life, a major Cambodian drama series funded by the BBC World Service Trust and the Department for International Development.[2]
Continuing his involvement in Cambodia, Baylis scripted Palace of Dreams, a BBCWST-funded romantic comedy film, aimed at younger audiences;[3] Vanished – a film-noir thriller made by Robinson's company Khmer Mekong Films, which showed to great acclaim across Cambodia in 2009, and has been shown at the Pyongyang International Film Festival;[4] and he co-created, and wrote scripts for AirWaves, a contemporary drama series funded by the U.S. government, which is currently showing on Cambodia's TV channel CTN.[5]
The author of two comic novels, Stranger than Fulham[6] and The Last Ealing Comedy[7] he has been the television critic for the Daily Express since September 2005 – where he writes as Matt Baylis – and also written on television and other subjects for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Daily Mail.
His third novel A Death at the Palace is a crime thriller set in Tottenham - the first in the Rex Tracey series - and it was published by Old Street on 13 March 2013.[8]
The 2013 book Man Belong Mrs Queen gives an account of his time on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, researching the Prince Philip Movement .[9] In December 2013 and January 2014 the book was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.[10]
His fourth novel, and the second in the Rex Tracey series of Haringey-set crime thrillers, is The Tottenham Outrage published on 15 July 2014 by Old Street. As well as a contemporary mystery on the streets of North London, this book presents a fact-based, but fictionalized re-imagining of the real Tottenham Outrage, a bungled robbery attempt by Russian anarchists in January 1909.[11]
Personal life[]
Baylis is married and lives in Highgate, North London, with his wife and son.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ United Nations Kenya http://www.un-kenya.org/Heart&Soul/Heart&Soul.htm.
- ^ Monroe, Jo. "Soap and Charity" The Observer, London, Sunday 8 August 2004. Retrieved on 6 October 2010
- ^ BBC World Service Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/whatwedo/where/asia/cambodia/2008/11/081107_cambodia_palace_of_dreams.shtml
- ^ Variety review of Vanished
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Stranger than Fulham Baylis, Matthew (1999) Chatto & Windus, London. ISBN 0-7011-6857-9
- ^ The Last Ealing Comedy Baylis, Matthew (2003) Chatto & Windus, London. ISBN 0-7011-6858-7
- ^ Baylis, Matthew. "Looking Back At Anger" . Daily Express. London. Friday 24 September 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010
- ^ Baylis, M. 2013, Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers, London: Old Street Publishing, ISBN 978-190869964-0
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Man Belong MRS Queen".
- ^ ISBN 978-1-908699-67-1.
- 1971 births
- Living people
- British male journalists
- British male novelists
- British male screenwriters
- British male television writers
- People from Nottingham