Mick Herron

Mick Herron is, to me, one of the most quietly subversive thriller writers working today. The Slough House series takes the glamour of espionage and hands it to a crew of washed-up, disgraced spies, and somehow that's where the genre feels most alive. His prose marries sharp satire with genuine tenderness for failures, which is a rare balance. The Gold Dagger and the 2025 Diamond Dagger confirm what readers already knew, and the Slow Horses adaptation only widened his reach. I admire that an Oxford-educated novelist chose to write about the unglamorous and made it sing.

Name (English)

Mick Herron

Name (Japanese)

ミック・ヘロン

Reading

みっく・へろん

Born

July 11, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Occupation

writer / novelist / short story writer

High school

St. Cuthbert's High School

University

Balliol College

Awards & achievements

• 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

• Official sitehttps://www.mickherron.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick%20Herron
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24929761

Tags

• writer
• novelist
• short story writer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.