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 a 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.