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Simon Lewis was born in Wales and grew up in Scotland. He is the author of the Rough Guides to China, Beijing, and Shanghai, and the backpacker novel Go, which he wrote in a village in the Himalayas. He spends half his time in Brixton, London, and the... Read full bio

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Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
A. rewrite a lot, and cut the first fifty pages.
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My life in 8 words: "procrastination, china, taiji, football, brixton, caffeine, art, faffing"
Bad Traffic will be released on May 18, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. give it seventy percent Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain? A. The Daleks Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. James Bond Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. scratching Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. Joy Divison, Love Will Tear Us Apart; Happy Mondays, Step On; Nirvana, Come as you are; REM, Orange Crush; Carter USM, 24 Minutes from Tulse Hill Learn more about Simon Lewis

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Mail Online UK, December 26, 2009
...colour sat-nav and eight-speaker hi-fi. Three trim levels and seven engines will be offered from £10,790. By Simon Lewis...
Suite101.com, November 1, 2009
...City of Bones is the first book in the Mortal Instruments Trilogy. The main characters Clary Fray and Simon Lewis are thrown into a world of supernatural creatures that range from vampires to demons. It begins with Clary witnessing the murder of a demon...
London Evening Standard, June 23, 2009
...to warrant Mr Brown's strong arm around their shoulders. Or it may be that his new PR, Simon Lewis, has warned him off making toe-curling gestures to women he doesn't know. ? Iran's clerics seem to have been caught out by a trick of delicious simplicity...
EirePreneur, January 6, 2010
...but wonder why, in the age of wikipedia, an opensource alternative can't be developed? Lack of will?" Simon Lewis, principal of Carlow Educate Together Primary school and author of the influential Anseo ezine then responded - " lots of thingspreventing...
Jen's Book Thoughts, December 27, 2009
...THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN B (Author) - James Lee Burke, THE RAIN GODS (Title) - Simon Lewis, BAD TRAFFIC C (Author) - Harlan Coben, TELL NO ONE (Title) - James Lee Burke, LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS D (Author) - Ted Dekker, ADAM (Title) - Rosemary...
Comment is free | guardian.co.uk, November 12, 2009
...Janes's grief, thus further promoting its own. Never mind. In another corner of the forest, PR man Simon Lewis, the new No 10 spokesman (and brother of Telegraph editor, Will), is not proving a success in promoting a tricky product: Brown. I no...
Jen's Book Thoughts, September 2, 2009
...back his memoir from the interview since the series had been started, so I'm excited to have Simon Lewis back with us. Simon has worked as a travel writer in addition to a "barman, a shelf stacker, barrsita, life model, sandwich deliverer and an English...
The First Post: Latest, June 16, 2009
...bring back Peter Mandelson and now his appointment of his own Alastair Campbell figure, in the form of Simon Lewis: that during his time in politics the game changed, making personality more important than ideology. Were it not for this shift, Brown...
Go Knit In Your Hat, May 28, 2009
...of manners as they mercilessly yet affectionately describe a way of life about to vanish. Bad Traffic, by Simon Lewis, was an somewhat unusual detective story. It's set in modern-day Britain, but from the perspective of a Chinese police inspector who...
LA Observed, April 23, 2009
...p.m. Mysteries in Black & White Moderator Ms. Sarah Weinman Ms. Denise Hamilton Mr. Michael Koryta Mr. Simon Lewis 1:30 Sports: The Athlete as Role Model Moderator Mr. David Davis Mr. Bill Dwyre Ms. Diana Nyad Mr. Michael Vetre's 2 p.m. Biography: The...
Peoples Republic of South Devon The Peoples R, February 17, 2009
...announced on World Book Day, Thursday, March 5. The books are (in no particular order): Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet) by Nasreen Akhtar Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction by Alison MacLeod Imagine This by Sade...