Neil Forsyth was born in Scotland in 1978 and grew up in the city of Dundee. He is the author of six books and writes for radio and TV.
Forsyth’s first book was Other People’s Money, the true story of the Scottish credit card fraudster Elliot Castro. Other People’s Money was serialised in the Guardian newspaper, released in seven countries and is being developed as a feature film.
The Bob Servant comic creation of Forsyth features in a trilogy of books: Delete This At Your Peril – The Bob Servant Emails, Bob Servant – Hero Of Dundee and Why Me? The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant. Forsyth wrote a BBC Radio 4 adaptation (The Bob Servant Emails) and is currently adapting the books for BBC Television.
Irvine Welsh selected Delete This At Your Peril for his choice in Esquire Magazine’s Funniest Books Ever and Forsyth’s creation of Bob Servant has been critically compared to the work of Peter Cook and Spike Milligan.
Forsyth’s debut novel Let Them Come Through was well-received and released in the UK in 2010 and the USA in 2011. It will be followed by a second novel, San Carlos, to be released by Random House in June 2012.