Biography
Matthew Hall is a British screenwriter and novelist. He was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read law. Called to the Bar in 1990, he practised as a barrister before becoming a full-time writer in 1995.
Hall began his television career writing episodes of Kavanagh QC. His credits include an episode of Foyle's War (2002), as well as work on Holby City, Blue Murder and New Street Law, which he co-created. He created and wrote the BBC Wales series Keeping Faith (2017–2021), for which he won a BAFTA Cymru award.
Hall has also written a series of crime novels featuring coroner Jenny Cooper, beginning with The Coroner (2009).
