Taylor, Chad

Chad Taylor is the author of the novels DEPARTURE LOUNGE, PACK OF LIES, HEAVEN, SHIRKER, ELECTRIC, THE CHURCH OF JOHN COLTRANE and the collection THE MAN WHO WASN'T FEELING HIMSELF. His new novel is BLUE HOTEL.

HEAVEN was made into a feature film in 1998. Time Out named ELECTRIC as Book of the Week: "a New Zealand you won't see in Lord of the Rings: a city suffering from the same urban malaise as glitzier metropolises on other continents".

The Washington Post said of DEPARTURE LOUNGE: "His style owes a lot to Raymond Chandler and lesser apostles of noir, but at the same time it's very much his own. His prose is spare but with a strong undercurrent of emotion; "cool" certainly is the word for him, but there's a good deal of heat beneath."

The Guardian described Chad Taylor as a cult author with "a profound empathy for the losers in our midst and an acute sense of place and the bizarre in everyday life". Crimewatch said BLUE HOTEL is "full of depth, striking characters, sparkling writing, and a rich sense of time and place".