Matt Rees

Matt Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef, a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical crime novels. He is the winner of a Crime Writers Association Dagger for his crime fiction.

His first work of nonfiction was Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East in 2004 (Free Press).

The New York Times called The Collaborator of Bethlehem, the first of his Palestinian crime novels about Bethlehem sleuth Omar Yussef, “an astonishing first novel.”The Independent (London) hailed Omar as “the next big sleuth in crime fiction.”Le Figaro called the book “a masterpiece.” Under its UK title The Bethlehem Murders the first Omar Yussef novel won the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey New Blood Dagger in 2008.

Rees's writing has been compared with the work of Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell. The French magazine L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.” Rees's books have sold in 25 languages.

Matt Rees (comedian)

Matt Rees is an award-winning, up and coming Welsh comedian.

Rees is a Chortle Awards nominee and is making his name on the comedy circuit having recently supported Elis James. He performed as part of the Pleasance Reserve at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year (2012).

He has been nominated for and won numerous awards including Welsh Unsigned Stand-up Award, Loaded Laftas New Act of the Year, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and Chortle Best Newcomer.

He cites Sean Lock, Jack Dee and Dara Ó Briain amongst his influences.

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