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Jim Keeble

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Jim Keeble[1] is a novelist, travel-writer and screenwriter from Cambridge, England. He now lives in London with his wife.

Biography

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Keeble is an Oxford graduate. For his travel-writing, Keeble won the 1995 "Travel Writer of the Year" award at the Travelex Awards, and his book Independence Day – A voyage around America with a broken heart was one of the New York Times' top six travel books of the year 2000. With Dudi Appleton, Keeble began writing screenplays. The first which was filmed was A Sort Of Homecoming (1994) which was a short based and filmed in Strangford Lough in County Down. This was followed by The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), in 1999.

In television, Keeble continued the collaboration and wrote for series such as Inspector George Gently, Silent Witness[2] and co-created the crime drama Wild Bill.[3] Appleton and Keeble adapted Robert van Gulik's 'Judge Dee' novels for a new Chinese-British television series. In 2024, Youku released the series, Judge Dee's Mystery.[4]

As literary influences, Keeble states Anne Tyler, Michael Ondaatje, John Irving, Nick Hornby and Charles M. Schulz.

Bibliography

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  • 2000: Independence Day - A voyage around America with a broken heart
  • 2003: My Fat Brother (US title Men and other Mammals)
  • 2005: The A-Z of Us

Filmography

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References

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  1. "Jim Keeble - Penguin Books Authors". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  2. "Silent Witness: Bloodlines". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  3. "ITV commissions crime drama, Wild Bill, starring and executive produced by internationally renowned actor Rob Lowe". ITV. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  4. "British screenwriters adapt Chinese novels in unique UK-China collaboration". BAFTA. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
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