About
Bio
Chris Routledge is a freelance writer, editor and university teacher based near Liverpool in the UK. A long time ago he wrote a PhD thesis on the American crime writer Raymond Chandler, and has since worked on just about any kind of non-fiction writing project you can think of, from contracted writing for print and web, to copyediting, to blogs, books and a little bit of journalism. He is on the editorial board of The Reader magazine and is a founding editor of its blog The Reader Online. He is also a sometime copywriter, ghostwriter, and serial shed builder.
Book
Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint
‘A fascinating and exhilarating story of a great Liverpool institution still brewing great beer. Beer lovers will delight in the book’.
- Roger Protz, Editor, Good Beer Guide.
Listen to me reading from chapter 1 here.
More on my books page.
Currently
I am working on a book about the whaler and Arctic explorer William Scoresby Jr. and trying to decide whether to pitch it to a publisher or self publish. The working title is Letters to Elizabeth.
I teach on the Comparative American Studies programme at the University of Liverpool where I am also responsible for organising continuing education courses in English language and literature.
Earlier this year I was forced to review the projects I was involved with, and handed over editorial responsibility for 100 American Crime Writers and 100 British Crime Writers. But I’m going to be writing quite a few entries for each book and working with Steve Powell on The Venetian Vase.
