The Business of Dying - Simon Kernick

I love reading but for some reason I don’t seem to have the time to read as much as I would like to so my recent holiday meant that I got some time to loose myself in a good book – The Business Of Dying The Business of Dying is Simon Kernick’s first book. About The Author Simon Kernick was born 1966 in the town of Slough. After leaving school in the mid 1980s, he worked in a variety of jobs including bring a labourer on a road-building gang (until an industrial accident cut short a promising career); stockroom assistant for a major IT company and a fruit picker, He also spent several years living and travelling in Canada and the USA before ...

Simon Kernick’s debut novel “The Business of Dying” caught my eye not because it falls into the thriller genre, but because it was in a book clearance sale at Books Etc and cost the princely sum of £1.00. For an avid reader like me it is almost impossible to pass by such a bargain and I’m delighted that I didn’t on this occasion as this author’s potential talent was evident in abundance. Born in 1966 Simon Kernick led a fairly nomadic existence in his early adult years travelling extensively in the Far East, the USA and Australia. In 1991 he completed a Humanities Degree at Brighton Polytechnic releasing himself onto the job market smack bang in the middle ...