Simon Kernick (born February 1967 in Slough, Buckinghamshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters.
Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter.
He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.
[1] His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007.