Matthew Hall is a Bafta-winning screenwriter and novelist who lives on the England/Wales border.

He trained and practised as a barrister before becoming a full-time writer. His first original series Wing and a Prayer was nominated for a Bafta and he won a Bafta Cymru in 2018 for Keeping Faith.

His debut novel The Coroner was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger in 2009, as was his fourth novel The Flight in 2012. His Jenny Cooper novels were recently adapted for television in Canada as the series Coroner and the first four seasons have aired on CBC.

He has strong family connections to both Ontario and Vancouver and has visited Canada regularly since 1983.