Martin Walker

Martin Walker is the author of the hugely successful Bruno series of crime novels, following on a country policeman in France’s Perigord region who loves to cook but hates to make arrests. They have been translated into 16 languages with nearly 4 million global sales. The Bruno cookbook recently won the Gourmand International Award.

Bruno’s Challenge & Other Dordogne Tales (Quercus, 2021) is a collection of short stories, all featuring Bruno, Chief of Police, and the other well-loved characters from the series. The latest instalment of the series is A Grave in the Woods (Quercus, 2024).

A veteran foreign correspondent for The Guardian and later director of a think-tank on global economics based in Washington, Martin Walker began as a non-fiction writer of books including The Cold War: A History (Fourth Estate, 1993);The Waking Giant: Soviet Union under Gorbachev (M. Joseph, 1986); Makers of the American Century (Chatto & Windus, 2000); Clinton: The President They Deserve (Fourth Estate, 1996); and The National Front (Fontana, 1987).

Awarded a gold medal by the French government for services to tourism, he is also a Grand Consul of Bergerac wines and chairs the jury for the Prix Ragueneau, the cookery prize of south-west France.

Bruno’s latest publication is Bruno’s Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions From a French Country Kitchen, which he co-authored with his wife Julia Watson. It was released both in the UK and US in November 2023 by Knopf.