Mick Herron
British novelist
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| 2025 | Herron is awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement, honoring his significant contributions to the mystery and thriller genre. |
| 2025 | Announced upcoming novel 'Clown Town' to be published in this year |
| 2024 | Won the Last Laugh Award for 'The Secret Hours' and was shortlisted for multiple awards including the Barry Award and International Thriller Writers award |
| 2024 | Apple TV+ adaptation of 'Down Cemetery Road' starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson was announced |
| 2023 | Won the USC Libraries Scripter Award for 'Real Tigers' and was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for 'Bad Actors'. |
| 2023 | Won the USC Libraries Scripter Award for 'Slow Horses' and had 'Bad Actors' longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year |
| 2023 | Herron published 'The Secret Hours', a standalone novel set around or after 'Bad Actors', which also includes a section set well before the main Slough House series begins. |
| November 29 2023 | Season 3 of 'Slow Horses', based on 'Real Tigers', premiered on Apple TV+ |
| 2022 | Won Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the Last Laugh Award for 'Slough House' |
| 2022 | Published 'Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas', compiling all previously published Slough House novellas. |
| 2022 | Published two works: 'Bad Actors' (novel) and 'Standing by the Wall' (novella) |
| December 2 2022 | Second season of 'Slow Horses', based on 'Dead Lions', premiered on Apple TV+ |
| June 2022 | Additional seasons adapting 'Real Tigers' and 'Spook Street' were greenlit by Apple TV+ |
| April 1 2022 | First season of 'Slow Horses' television adaptation premiered on Apple TV+, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, based on the book 'Slow Horses' |
| 2021 | Published the short story collection 'Dolphin Junction', featuring multiple stories including Zoë Boehm and Jackson Lamb narratives. |
| 2021 | Published 'Slough House', the sixth novel in the series |
| 2020 | Won the Palle Rosenkrantz Award and was shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for 'Joe Country' |
| 2020 | Published two novellas: 'The Catch' and 'The Last Dead Letter' in the Slough House series |
| 2019 | Won the Capital Crime Best Thriller Award for 'London Rules' |
| 2019 | Published 'Joe Country', the fifth novel in the Slough House series |
| 2018 | Won the Last Laugh Award and was shortlisted for multiple awards including Barry Award for 'Spook Street' |
| 2018 | Published 'The Drop' (with an alternate US title 'The Marylebone Drop'). |
| 2018 | Herron released 'This Is What Happened', another standalone novel in his interconnected narrative world. |
| 2018 | Published two works: 'London Rules' (novel) and 'The Drop' (novella, also known as 'The Marylebone Drop' in the US) |
| 2017 | Won the Last Laugh Award for 'Real Tigers' and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for 'Spook Street' |
| 2017 | Published 'Spook Street', the fourth novel in the Slough House series |
| 2016 | 'Real Tigers' was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel |
| 2016 | Published 'Real Tigers', the third novel in the Slough House series |
| 2015 | 'Nobody Walks' was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. |
| 2015 | Published the short story 'The List'. |
| 2015 | Herron published 'Nobody Walks', a standalone novel that is chronologically positioned between 'The List' and 'Spook Street' in his fictional universe. |
| 2015 | Published 'The List', a novella in the Slough House series |
| 2015 | John Murray started republishing the Slough House series in the UK after Constable initially declined to continue publishing due to disappointing sales. |
| 2014 | 'Dead Lions' was shortlisted for the Barry Award for best thriller and the Macavity Prize for best novel. |
| 2013 | Published 'Dead Lions', the second novel in the Slough House series |
| 2013 | Published the short story collection All the Livelong Day, compiling some of his previously published short stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. |
| 2013 | Herron wins the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for his novel 'Dead Lions'. |
| 2010 | His novel 'Slow Horses' was longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. |
| 2010 | Herron began the Slough House spy series with the first volume Slow Horses, which focuses on MI5 agents exiled from the agency mainstream for various failures. |
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