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Mark Chadbourn is a British fantasy, science fiction and horror author with eleven novels (and one non-fiction book) published around the world.

Born in the English Midlands from a long line of coal miners. he gained a degree in Economic History --> --> and went on to became a journalist, working for some of Britain's leading newspapers and magazines including The Times of London, The Independant , and Marie Claire  --> -->

His writing career began in 1990 when his first published short story Six Dead Boys in a Very Dark World won Fear magazine's Best New Author award. It attracted the attention of agents and publishers.

Six of his novels have been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award for Best Novel, and he has won the British Fantasy Award twice, for his novella The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke(2005), and for his short story Whisper Lane(2007).

His new novel Jack of Ravens was published in the UK on July 20 2006. It is the first in a new sequence called Kingdom of the Serpent. The second book, The Burning Man, will be published in February 2008.

The earlier books include two series, The Age of Misrule and The Dark Age.

Mark has been described as 'a contemporary bard - a post-industrial Taliesin whose visionary novels are crammed with remixed mythologies, oneiric set pieces, potent symbols, unsettling imagery and an engaging fusion of genre elements. The author's ambition is sustained by his invention: his work is distinguished by breakneck but brilliantly controlled plots, meticulous research, deft characterisation and a crisp, accessible prose style.'

In addition to his novels he also is a scriptwriter for the BBC drama Doctors

Works
Novels currently in print:

World's End, Gollancz (UK) 1999

Darkest Hour, Gollancz (UK) 2000

Always Forever, Gollancz (UK) September 2001

The Devil in Green, Gollancz (UK) October 2002

The Queen of Sinister, Gollancz (UK) March 2004

The Hounds Of Avalon, Gollancz (UK) April 2005

 Jack of Ravens, Gollancz (UK) July 2006 (Available across the Commonwealth plus translations in Japan, France, Germany, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. US publication forthcoming.)

Forthcoming releases:

The Burning Man, Gollancz (UK) February 2008

Novellas and works currently out of print

The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, PS Publishing (UK) July 2002

Dr Who: Wonderland, Telos (UK) April 2003

Underground, Piatkus (UK) 1992

Nocturne, Gollancz (UK) 1994

The Eternal, Gollancz (UK) 1996

Scissorman, Gollancz (UK) 1997

Testimony: Non-fiction, Gollancz/Vista (UK) 1996

Other works:

The Book of Shadows graphic novel, Image Comics (UK) April 2006

Plus numerous short stories including the award winning Whisper Lane in BFS – A Celebration anthology in 2006, and Who slays the Gyant wounds the beast in the The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (Mass Market Paperback)(UK) December 2007