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Her widowed father, a colonel during World War II, often calls for his daughters in order of their birth: Ophelia, Daphne, Flavia-damn-it. His newest in the Flavia de Luce series,'Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd,' was published in September by Delacorte Press, Penguin Random House, for $26. (though all of the novels in the series have found a significant adult following, too). 'I was on the prairies for a long time, 25 years,' he said. 'After Saskatoon, (he and wife Shirley) moved to British Columbia for 15 years, then to Malta for about four, now Isle of Man.'īradley took early retirement in 1994 to pursue writing. After several short stories and multiple screenplays, he began his first novel in the spring of 2006. Submitting only a draft chapter and synopsis for a CWA Debut Dagger competition, 'The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie' went on to win nine out of 12 award nominations in Best First Novel /Mystery and Young Adult categories. Youngest of three with two older sisters, Flavia's revenges on Daffy (Daphne) and Feely (Ophelia) echo Bradley's own childhoodĪlan Bradley was born in Toronto in 1938. An electronics engineer who worked at radio and TV stations across Ontario, he eventually became director of Television and Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.'Sweetness' won more awards than any other first novel and launched his internationally-best-selling Flavia de Luce series, now published in dozens of countries in dozens of languages.He was told 'The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie' (2009) was too long a title, and that books with green covers never sold.

After 25 years at the University of Saskatchewan, Bradley took early retirement to become a full-time writer.

Sweetness at the bottom of the pie series order