Big Jessie
By (Author) Zane Radcliffe
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Black Swan
3rd November 2003
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
368
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
252g
Scarlet plucks her 12-string guitar with nails the colour of cocktail cherries and Belfast music hack Jessie Black is smitten. But then almost as suddenly, Jay feels the heat of a sniper's bullet. Who wants him dead Or rather, who doesn't want him dead Because Jay has upset a few people over the years. Then Scarlet goes missing and things start getting serious.
Zane Radcliffe was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1969. After graduating from Queen's University Belfast he moved to London in 1994 to become an advertising copywriter. He is now a Creative Director at Newhaven, a really good advertising agency in Edinburgh. His first novel, London Irish (2002), earned him the WHSmith 'People's Choice' New Talent Award. This follows the success of his first short story, My Dog (1974), which was awarded a B+ and a Big Red Tick by Miss Hasard at Ballyholme Primary School. His second novel, Big Jessie, is also published in Black Swan.