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Welcome to the website of J.D Patterson, the author of Aussie Noir thriller Dark in Different Ways.
J.D Patterson wrote Dark in Different Ways while undertaking a mentorship programme at the Faber Academy. He’s always wanted to write fiction. In the early 2000s, he spent a couple of years in Australia and New Zealand. He now lives in London where he works for a university.
He has also written non-fiction pieces which have been published on the Open Democracy website, in the Times Higher Education Supplement, and in the Australian Quarterly.