Trevor Wood

Trevor Wood left school with two CSEs which brought an abrupt end to his dreams of journalism. Instead, he ran away to sea, joining the Royal Navy as a Writer, which seems extraordinarily prescient now.

Some 15 years later he abandoned ship, married a Geordie, moved to Newcastle and relaunched his journalism career but ironically it turned out it wasn’t for him. He also worked as a spin doctor for the city council.

One of his fellow journalist buddies, Ed Waugh, persuaded him to try his hand at writing. The pair wrote a comedy play called Dirty Dusting and the royalties are still flooding in some 20 years later.

When he’s not writing he’s usually watching a band, preferably one that no one else has ever heard of, or cooking up a storm, either at home or as a volunteer at the People’s Kitchen, a fabulous organisation which feeds Newcastle’s homeless population (donations gratefully accepted here.

Trevor is the author of the Jimmy Mullen series that features a homeless veteran who suffers from PTSD. The Man on the Street won him the 2020 CWA New Blood Dagger.

Books by Trevor Wood

One Way Street

Homeless veteran Jimmy Mullan doesn’t have many friends, so when one of them goes missing, Jimmy doesn’t sit around doing nothing, he goes looking for young Deano.

Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Linda Wilson

The Man on the Street

When a homeless man sees the report of a woman’s search for her missing father, he thinks he might have been the only witness to a possible murder. The police don’t seem very interested in what he has to say, but the man’s daughter is desperate for help, so against his better judgment, Jimmy Mullen gets involved.

Reviewed on 04 July 2020 by Linda Wilson