Talk:Chris Brookmyre

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Marked for NPOV as article seems overly effusive! Steve 06:19, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Darcourt[edit]

Can Simon Darcourt really be said to be a recurring character? He has only featured in one book, and whilst there is a short story on Brookmyre's website that seems to feature Darcourt, the character is never actually mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.5.184.172 (talk) 15:40, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The new book 'A Snowball In Hell' has him in, so yes, he is now officially a recurring character. Godmanchester (talk) 22:15, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A note on that short story: The story is repeated again within 'A Snowball In Hell,' apparently identical but I haven't checked. I wonder if this means the reference to the short story is really necessary on the wiki page. I am particularly uncomfortable about the phrase "is the "hero" of the short story Mellow Doubt, though, unless you have read A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away, you wouldn't get the reference." which does not appear to be in keeping with the style of an encyclopedia. DrBen (talk) 20:20, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Birthplace[edit]

British Council and the German national library give birthplace Glasgow.[1] [2] Those are two listed External links and I put Glasgow in the section 1 lead and in hidden template {{Persondata}} despite some DOUBT.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database give birthplace Barrhead, Renfrewshire.[3] [4] Those sources are not in the article and we say only raised and schooled in Barrhead.

ISFDB evidently relies on the SFE entry and on Amazon book displays, both of which it cites. That SFE entry[5] shows he is a science fiction writer, among other things, and it should be used as one source for expanding our article. --at least re his latest novel Bedlam (Orbit, 2013).

--P64 (talk) 15:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present states "Christopher Brookmyre was born in Barrhead, outside Glasgow, on September 6, 1968", while the Edinburgh Evening News (Aug 29, 2009), and the Evening Times (Apr 13, 2005) describe him as "Barrhead-born". I personally wouldn't treat the SFE as a wholly relible source. Salmanazar (talk) 12:48, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Barrhead is just a small town and doesn't seem to have a hospital, so it's possible he was born in the nearest one in Glasgow but never lived there and this could be causing the confusion in the sources. For example, I was born in Belfast and that's what my passport and birth certificate say but I would never describe myself as being from there. Most of the sources seem to say Barrhead so I think that's what should be in the article. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:24, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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