James Runcie is a writer and director. He is the author of The Grantchester Mysteries, Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University, and a fiction reviewer for The Independent.
The Grantchester Mysteries have been adapted to become the ITV/PBS Masterpiece series GRANTCHESTER starring James Norton, Robson Greene, Morven Christie, Pheline Roggan, Tessa Peake-Jones and Al Weaver.
James Runcie was born in 1959, educated at Marlborough College, Cambridge University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and lives in Edinburgh and London.