Greg McGee

 

Greg McGee is a New Zealand writer and playwright.

HIs first play, Foreskin’s Lament, drew on his own background as a Junior All Black to examine the rugby culture of the late Seventies.

He writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Alix Bosco, and won the 2010 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction with Cut & Run.

He has also ghost-written biographies for former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw (published in the UK as The Real McCaw) and for New Zealand cricket captain, Brendon McCullum.

His novel The Antipodeans was published in 2015 and longlisted in the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. It spent 49 weeks in New Zealand's bestseller charts. It was published in the UK by Lightning in 2018.