Biography

Mick Herron was born on July 11, 1963 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. He is a writer and producer, known for Slow Horses (2022), Down Cemetery Road (2025) and Kulturplatz (2004).

On his "Slough House" stories: I don't want to write a big, plotted, evil-mastermind spy novel. I'm interested in incompetence, things going wrong, badly motivated stuff, and that's essentially our political reality now.

On his first novel "Down Cemetery Road": I wanted to write about a bunch of people who were forced to work together who were thwarted by life and having a terrible time with their careers.