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Martina Cole Born Eilidh Martina Cole March 1959 ( 1959-03) (age 60), England Occupation Writer Nationality British Citizenship British Period 1992–present Genre crime Notable works Dangerous Lady; The Runaway; The Take Notable awards Crime Writers Award Children 2 Website Martina Cole (born Eilidh Martina Cole, on 30 March 1959) is a British, and occasional television presenter. Cole was brought up in,. As of 2015 she has released twenty-two novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels,, The Jump, and have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. She has achieved sales of over fourteen million in the UK alone and her tenth novel, The Know, spent seven weeks on hardback best-sellers list.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Cole was born in, England, to parents, and was the youngest of five children. Her mother was a from, and her father was a from.

Her cousin is Cork politician. She was expelled from her school aged 15 after allegedly being caught reading a novel. She married for the first time aged 16, but the marriage only lasted a year. She had her first child, Christopher, at the age of 18. Her parents both died when she was in her early 20s. Prior to her literary success, Cole had a variety of low-paid jobs, including working as a cleaner, a wine waitress, an agency nurse and a supermarket shelf-stacker. Career [ ] Writing [ ] Cole's breakthrough came in 1991, when her manuscript for was accepted by the literary agent Darley Anderson and sold for a record £150,000.

The book was published by the following year. Most of her novels feature a female protagonist or, and some take place within the Irish community in and around London. In December 2011, readers using madaboutbooks.co.uk voted their favourite Martina Cole book. The Take won by 780 votes and was put at the top of the list of Martina Cole novels. Goodnight Lady came second, followed in third by Maura's Game. Cole's latest book, Damaged, was published in 2017. Television [ ] A four-part TV adaptation of was broadcast on in 1995, and in 1998 broadcast a four-part adaptation of The Jump.

Was serialised on British television on in June 2009, which starred as Freddie. Sky1 has also commissioned an adaptation of The Graft, which has yet to go into production. In March 2011, was shown on Sky1 and Sky1 HD. Descargar quien quiere ser millonario editable. It is based on Cole's 1997 novel of the same name. In 2008 Martina Cole presented a series on called Martina Cole's Lady Killers, which told the story of six of history's most notorious female, including,. Cole explored the reasons why women kill, and why society is surprised when they do.

Each programme told the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction. The programme proved to be a ratings hit for ITV3 and transferred to ITV1 in 2009. Cole filmed an investigative documentary, Martina Cole Girl Gangs: Los Angeles for Sky1 in 2009. This focused on the role of girls in these gangs, which have been responsible for crimes ranging from drug dealing and car theft, to robbery and murder. In 2014 she appeared in a documentary about, called Inside Holloway. Additionally, she has appeared on ITV's, The Crime Thriller Club, for, ITV's popular daytime show, for, and a 2004 edition of.

Along with TV executive producer, Barry Ryan, Cole co-owns the film and television production company '2 Queens'. Theatre [ ] Three of Cole's novels have been adapted for the stage by the,, London: Two Women in 2010; The Graft in 2011, and Cole's first novel, in 2012.

Other interests [ ] In 2011 Cole founded her own record label, Hostage Music. The London-based band Alabama3 has signed up to the label. Personal life [ ] Cole lives in a, 15th-century manor house near, Kent. She also has a house in northern. She remarried in the 1990s, but the marriage ended in divorce.

She had her second child, Freddie Mary, when she was 39. Cole regularly holds creative writing classes in UK prisons. She is a patron of the single-parent charity, and also a patron of. Since her 20s she has suffered from after breaking both arms as a child. The arthritis has worsened over time, and now makes it painful for her when writing.

Books [ ] • (1992) • The Ladykiller (1993) • Goodnight Lady (1994) • The Jump (1995) • The Runaway (1997) • Two Women (1999) • Broken (2000) • Faceless (2001) • Maura's Game (2002) • The Know (2003) • The Graft (2004) • (2005) • Close (2006) • Faces (2007) • The Business (2008) • Hard Girls (2009) • The Family (2010) • The Faithless (2011) • The Life (2012) • Revenge (2013) • The Good Life (2014) • Get Even (2015) • Betrayal (2016) • Damaged (2017) Videograph [ ] • Martina Cole's Double Bill: The Jump & (2006) • (2009) • (2011) References [ ]. • ltd, company check. • ltd, company check. • 'Weekend Birthdays',, p. 51, 30 March 2014 access-date= requires url= () • Ltd, Comdevelopment.