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Matthew Baylis (b. Nottingham, 1971) also known as Matt Baylis and M.H. Baylis is a British novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and spent most of his early years in Southport, Merseyside. A former storyliner on BBC 1’s flagship drama series ''EastEnders'', he also adapted Catrin Collier’s 1930’s-set novel ''Hearts of Gold'' for the screen, and this was broadcast as a two-parter on BBC 1 in July 2003.〔International Movie Database – Hearts of Gold, BBC One, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363667/〕 He subsequently went with his former EastEnders boss, Matthew Robinson, to Kenya, where he co-created, co-storylined and trained a team of local writers for a six-part drama pilot.〔United Nations Kenya http://www.un-kenya.org/Heart&Soul/Heart&Soul.htm.〕 Robinson later invited him to Cambodia, to do the same on ''Taste of Life'', a major Cambodian drama series funded by the BBC World Service Trust and the Department for International Development.〔Monroe, Jo. ("Soap and Charity" ) ''The Observer'', London, Sunday 8 August 2004. Retrieved on 6 October 2010〕 Continuing his involvement in Cambodia, Baylis scripted ''Palace of Dreams'', a BBCWST-funded romantic comedy film, aimed at younger audiences;〔BBC World Service Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/whatwedo/where/asia/cambodia/2008/11/081107_cambodia_palace_of_dreams.shtml〕 ''Vanished'' – a film-noir thriller, made by Khmer Mekong Films, which showed to great acclaim across Cambodia in 2009, and has been shown at the Pyongyang International Film Festival;〔(Variety review ) of ''Vanished''〕 and he co-created, and wrote scripts for ''AirWaves'', a contemporary drama series funded by the U.S. government, which is currently showing on Cambodia’s TV channel CTN.〔http://www.cambodiafilms.com/airwaves.html〕 The author of two comic novels, ''Stranger than Fulham''〔''Stranger than Fulham'' Baylis, Matthew (1999) Chatto & Windus, London. ISBN 0-7011-6857-9〕 and ''The Last Ealing Comedy''〔''The Last Ealing Comedy'' Baylis, Matthew (2003) Chatto & Windus, London. ISBN 0-7011-6858-7〕 he has been the television critic for the ''Daily Express'' since September 2005 – where he writes as Matt Baylis – and also written on television and other subjects for ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''Independent on Sunday'' and ''Daily Mail''. His third novel ''A Death At the Palace'' is a crime thriller set in Tottenham - the first in the Rex Tracey series - and it was published by Old Street on 13 March 2013.〔Baylis, Matthew. ("Looking Back At Anger" ) . ''Daily Express''. London. Friday 24 September 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010〕 The 2013 book ''Man Belong Mrs Queen'' gives an account of his time on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, researching the Prince Philip Movement .〔Baylis, M. 2013, ''Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers'', London: Old Street Publishing, ISBN 978-190869964-0〕 In December 2013 and January 2014 the book was BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week''.〔()〕 His fourth novel, and the second in the Rex Tracey series of Haringey-set crime thrillers, is ''The Tottenham Outrage'' published on 15 July 2014 by Old Street. As well as a contemporary mystery on the streets of North London, this book presents a fact-based, but fictionalized re-imagining of the real Tottenham Outrage, a bungled robbery attempt by Russian anarchists in January 1909.〔ISBN 978-1-908699-67-1.〕 He is married and lives in Highgate, North London, with his wife and son. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Baylis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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