In the late 1980s Meade wrote and directed a number of his own plays for the Strand Theatre in Dublin. He originally worked as a pilot trainer for
Aer Lingus, before becoming a journalist for
The Irish Times and
Irish Independent newspapers. In 1994, he released his first novel,
Brandenburg, which garnered much critical acclaim. Meade now writes full-time. His books have been translated into 29 languages, including
Swedish, French, German,
Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and
Turkish. His work
The Second Messiah was published in English in summer 2011, by Simon & Schuster in New York. Meade divides his time between Ireland, and on occasion, the USA. He was one of the Irish delegates at the European Writers Conference in
Istanbul in 2010. ==Bibliography==