Mo Hayder

Mo Hayder left school at fifteen. She worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She had an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University UK.

Mo lived in Bath with her daughter Lotte-Genevieve. She was also the actress Candy Davis, who was most known as the blonde secretary on “ Are You Being Served?”

Books in order of publication:

Jack Caffery series

Birdman (2000)

The Treatment (2001)

Ritual (2008)

Skin (2009)

Gone (2010)

Poppet (2013)

Wolf (2014)

Stand-alone novels

Tokyo (2004), also published as The Devil of Nanking (2010)

Pig Island (2006)

Hanging Hill (2011)

Bonehead (2024)

Writing as Theo Clare

The Book of Sand (2022)