# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-brookmyre
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:34:02.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-brookmyre"
name: "Christopher Brookmyre"
slug: "christopher-brookmyre"
description: "Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning; subsequent works have included All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005), Black Widow (2016) and Bedlam (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called Bedlam. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry."
tagline: "Scottish novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ChrisBrookmyre2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.902888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/cbrookmyre"
    handle:    "cbrookmyre"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.brookmyre.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "كريستوفر بروكمير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Brookmyre"
    title: "Christopher Brookmyre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brookmyre"
    title: "Chris Brookmyre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Brookmyre"
    title: "Christopher Brookmyre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Brookmyre"
    title: "Christopher Brookmyre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump