Roger N Morris (born 1960 in Manchester) is an English historical fiction author and advertising copywriter.

Morris' first novel, Taking Comfort, was published by Macmillan New Writing and appeared in April 2006.

[3][4] His second novel The Gentle Axe, based on the character Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, was published by the Penguin Press in 2007.

[5][6] The 2008 sequel, A Vengeful Longing, continued the premise and similarly featured the character of Porfiry Petrovich, investigating murders in St.

[7] In 2010 Morris collaborated with the composer Ed Hughes on a new opera entitled Cocteau in the Underworld, which received work-in-progress performances through the OperaGenesis scheme, a ROH2 initiative with the support of the Genesis Foundation.