Gary Armitage

1956–

Gary Armitage is the real name of the novelist Robert Edric, born in Sheffield in 1956 and educated at the University of Hull. His first novel, A Season of Peace, published as G. E. Armitage, received a Betty Trask Award in 1985; it follows a father grieving for his soldier son, killed in an IRA bombing. As Robert Edric he won the James Tait Black Prize for Winter Garden (1985) and has published more than 25 novels, among them a crime trilogy set in Hull. Peacetime and Gathering the Water were longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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