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Joss was born in England in 1955 and from the age of four, grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland. She is the author of eight novels, including the Sara Selkirk series, and Half Broken Things, which won the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Silver Dagger Award.
Morag Joss is the Subject Coordinator for Creative Writing at Brookes. She is the award-winning author of the three Sara Selkirk novels, Half Broken Things, Puccini’s Ghosts, The Night Following, Among the Missing (Across the Bridge) and Our Picnics in the Sun. Her work has been translated into several languages and her fourth novel, Half ...
- mjoss@brookes.ac.uk
- Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
About. Morag Joss began writing in 1996 when her first short story won an award in a national competition. Starting to write was, she says, ‘discovering a lifelong ambition I didn’t know I had’. Her first three novels were whodunnits, the first of which Funeral Music was nominated for a Dilys award by the USA Independent Booksellers ...
Morag Joss is the award-winning author of the Sara Selkirk novels, Half Broken Things, Puccini’s Ghosts, The Night Following, Among the Missing (Across the Bridge) and Our Picnics in the Sun. She has also written for television, and writes short stories for print and broadcast.
Although best known as a novelist, Morag Joss has also written for television; her play for Sky Arts, Famous Last, starring Pauline Collins, has been broadcast worldwide. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and the most recent, It May be Lalique, was broadcast on Radio 4 to celebrate International Women’s Day 2012.
Half Broken Things is a 2003 psychological thriller novel by Scottish writer Morag Joss. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2003.
Genre. Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction. edit data. She is the author of six novels, including the Sara Selkirk series, and the Silver Dagger winning Half Broken Things. She began writing in 1996 after a short story of hers was runner-up in a national competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine.
