Bradley Quirk

Born in Hackney of Anglo-Jamaican heritage, Bradley won a place to board at Christ’s Hospital school before going on to read Modern History at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He gained an MFA in Film Production from Northwestern University and, after returning from Chicago, he joined the inaugural BBC Writers’ Academy.

Moving into film and television as a Creative Executive, Bradley has worked at, amongst others, the British Film Institute and Pathe on a range of feature films projects such as Philomena, Pride & Suffragette. Most recently at Netflix, he was an executive on Joy and Adolescence.

In his research for feature films and TV series, Bradley developed projects on a former Al-Qaeda operative turned MI5 & MI6 agent and spent time in Sierra Leone meeting the leaders behind a successful, youth-led coup d’etat. These experiences lit the fuse for a return to writing.

Bradley lives in South London with his family. The Hurricane Edge is his first novel and has been optioned for TV by Universal.