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MobLand

The Day of the Jackal

Dead Shot

Top Boy

Gunpowder

Hidden

Public Enemies

10 Days to War

The Hamburg Cell

Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?

Fields of Gold

Lucky Break

Rebel Heart

Face

A Further Gesture

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

Love Lies Bleeding

Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy. His other writing credits include the 1997 crime film Face, the 2009 Michael Mann crime biopic Public Enemies and the 2017 BBC historical drama miniseries Gunpowder. He has since gone on to create, write and executive-produce the Golden Globe-nominated thriller series The Day of the Jackal, which has been renewed for second series.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Bennett moved to Hackney, East London, where he lived with his wife and two children. Inspired by witnessing a twelve-year-old boy dealing drugs at his local Tesco supermarket in Hackney, Bennett created and wrote Top Boy, a British crime drama television series focusing on gang culture and drug dealing in a predominantly black council estate in East London. Originally airing for two series on Channel 4, the show was cancelled in 2014 but was revived as an original Netflix series, produced by rap artist Drake.

Ronan Bennett

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