Alan Judd

Alan Judd
Alan Judd
Birth name	Alan Edwin Petty
Born	1946 (age 77–78)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Other work	Diplomat, security analyst, and writer

Alan Judd (born 1946) is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty.^[1] Born in 1946, he is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and The Oldie. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.

Fiction Titles[edit]

Charles Thoroughgood novels:

A Breed of Heroes (1981 - adapted by Charles Wood as a BBC television film in 1996)
Legacy (2001)
Uncommon Enemy (2012)
Inside Enemy (2014)
Deep Blue (2017)
Accidental Agent (2019)
Queen and Country (2022)

Other novels:

Short of Glory (1984)
The Noonday Devil (1987)
Tango (1989)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
The Kaiser's Last Kiss (2003)
Dancing with Eva (2006)
Slipstream (2015)
Shakespeare's Sword (2018)
A Fine Madness (2021)

Non fiction Titles[edit]

Ford Madox Ford (1990)
First World War Poets (Character Sketches) (1997)
The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming And the Founding of the Secret Service (1999)^[2]

Awards[edit]

A Breed of Heroes won the 1981 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted and became runner-up in the 1981 Booker Prize.
In 1991, he won the Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.

References[edit]

^ Project MUSE - An Interview with Alan Judd Retrieved 2012-01-02.
^ Kieffer, George C. (June 2000). "The Quest For C: Mansfield Cumming and the founding of the Secret Service". RUSI Journal. 145 (3): 75–76. eISSN 1744-0378. ISSN 0307-1847. ProQuest 212131452. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via ProQuest.

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[1] Project MUSE - An Interview with Alan Judd Retrieved 2012-01-02.

[2] Kieffer, George C. (June 2000). "The Quest For C: Mansfield Cumming and the founding of the Secret Service". RUSI Journal. 145 (3): 75–76. eISSN 1744-0378. ISSN 0307-1847. ProQuest 212131452. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via ProQuest.

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v t e The Guardian's Guardian Fiction Prize
1965–1970	Crumb Borne by Clive Barry (1965) The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind (1966) Winter Journey by Eva Figes (1967) A Song and a Dance by P. J. Kavanagh (1968) Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch (1969) When Did You Last See your Father? by Margaret Blount (1970)
1971–1980	The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (1971) G by John Berger (1972) In the Country of the Skin by Peter Redgrove (1973) The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (1974) Friends and Romans by Sylvia Clayton (1975) Falstaff by Robert Nye (1976) The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock (1977) The Murderer by Roy Heath (1978) Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan and The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1979) A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
1981–1990	Kepler by John Banville (1981) Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes (1982) Waterland by Graham Swift (1983) Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984) Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (1985) Continent by Jim Crace (1986) The Levels by Peter Benson (1987) Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann (1988) Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City by Carol Lake (1989) Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville (1990)
1991–1998	The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd (1991) Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (1992) The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (1993) Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam (1994) Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan (1995) Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (1996) Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1997) Trumpet by Jackie Kay (1998)

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