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AARONOVITCH, Ben
Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of the World’.
In his youth he wrote for Doctor Who (his ‘Remembrance of the Daleks‘ is regarded as a classic by many) Casualty and the late lamented space soap Jupiter Moon – a show so low budget that you were only allowed seven of the regular cast in any given episode! Read the rest of this entry »
ADKIN, Mark
Major Mark Adkin spent many years as an infantry officer in the British Army seeing active service in Malaya and Aden. This was followed by a career as an administrative officer in the Colonial Service in the Solomon Islands and Gilbert Islands (now Kirbati) in the Pacific where he was a District Officer and later Secretary to a minister. The next five years was in uniform again as a contract officer with the Barbados Defence Force and as an internal security planner for several Caribbean islands.
The event that triggered Mark’s third career as a military historian and author was his participation in the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »
ASH, Sarah
‘Thursday’s Child has Far to Go.’ Sarah was born on a Thursday and she still likes to think that means there’s a lot more mileage in her yet, particularly when it comes to her first love – writing.
After she read The Lord of the Rings when she was twelve, she started writing her own fantasy novels but chose to study music at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), Cambridge. She’s always enjoyed working with young people, so she trained as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge. After she got married, she lived in Ealing, then West Wales, Normandy (France), and Beckenham, Kent. Read the rest of this entry »
BASU, Samit
Samit Basu is a 30-year-old Indian writer of novels, short stories, comics and screenplays.
He has written three epic/adventure fantasy novels, The Simoqin Prophecies which was published by Penguin India in 2003, by Ordbilder Sweden in 2005 and in Germany by Piper Verlag in2006 – The Manticore’s Secret, published by Penguin India in 2005 and The Unwaba Revelations, published by Penguin India, 2007. These were the first works of fantasy by an Indian in English and were all bestsellers in India. Read the rest of this entry »
BLAYLOCK, James P.
Jim Blaylock’s credentials and achievements are almost too many to list! He is the author of nearly twenty published novels and numerous shorter works. His 1978 story ‘The Ape-Box Affair’ is acknowledged as the first Steampunk story and the many further adventures of his much loved character Langdon St. Ives, in both shorter and longer forms (notably in the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel HOMUNCULUS and LORD KELVIN’S MACHINE) have made him the central figure in the original Steampunk triptych alongside Tim Powers (also represented by Zeno in the UK) and K.W. Jeter. He continues to collaborate with Powers, maintaining a partnership that has lasted since the two met in college back in the mid-70s and one only occasionally hampered by the interference of William Ashbless.
BOULTON, Susan J
Susan J. Boulton, like the song by The Police says, was Born in the 50′s, and has the unusual distinction of arriving into this world 200 yards from where, 37 years before, Tolkien spent time thinking about hobbits.
She has lived all her life in rural Staffordshire, and has a passion for the countryside, its history, myths and legends, all of which influence her work. Married with two grown up daughters, Susan now puts her over-active imagination (once the bane of both her parents and teachers) to good use in her writing. Read the rest of this entry »
BRETT, Peter V
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Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Peter V. Brett (“Peat” to his friends) has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University at Buffalo in 1995, and then spent over a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. His début novel, The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man in the US) was published in the UK (HarperCollins Voyager) in September 2008 to fantastic critical acclaim and was named one of Amazon.co.uk’s 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2008, and has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy, and the series has (so far) sold to Germany, France, Greece, Japan, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, and Portugal. Read the rest of this entry »
BUDRYS, Algis (estate)
Zeno is pleased to represent the estate of the late Algis Budrys. Here are a few words about A.J. courtesy of his wife, Edna…
Algis Budrys – 1931-2008
Legal name – Algirdas Jonas Budrys. A.J. to his friends.
Algis Budrys was a Renaissance man. His father was in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps and the family came to the United States when Algis was five years old which is when and where he learned English.
CAMPBELL, Jack
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JOHN HEMRY (who writes as Jack Campbell) is a retired US Navy officer and a graduate of the US Naval Academy. At the USNA, he majored in International Relations and lettered in fencing. On his first berth, the USS Spruance, he served first as Gunnery Officer and later as Navigator/Administrative Officer, with collateral duties including Ship’s Legal Officer. He later moved into naval intelligence and the newly-created Navy Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, where he worked in collaboration with the other services and the Joint Chiefs. He eventually returned to sea duty in the Western Pacific before concluding his career with another stint at the Pentagon, broadening his expertise through service as an action officer for operational plans, interfacing not only with the other services but with diplomatic communities as well. He received numerous awards and decorations for his service, before the end of the Cold War provided an opportunity for early retirement in 1994, twenty years after his entrance into the Naval Academy. Read the rest of this entry »
CAPWELL, Tobias
An internationally-acknowledged expert on medieval and Renaissance arms and armour, Toby Capwell is the author of numerous books and articles on this fascinating subject, including The Real Fighting Stuff: Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums (Glasgow: Glasgow Museums, 2006), The Worldwide Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers and Bayonets (London: Anness, 2009), and The Wallace Collection: A Celebration of Arms and Armour at Hertford House (Milan: Hans Prunner, 2008).
He appears regularly on television as a presenter and interviewee, most recently on Timewatch: The Greatest Knight’ (BBC2, 2008) and Private Life of a Masterpiece: Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ (BBC2, 2009)… Read the rest of this entry »
COBLEY, Michael
Mike Cobley was born in Leicester, 1959, to an English father and a Scottish mother, the kind of bedrock contrast which, he says, still serves to highlight the value of differences and the strength that comes from their combination.
After his family spent a few years in Australia, he went to school in Clydebank, followed by the University of Strathclyde (to study engineering,) where he ended up writing a scurrilous column of polemic for the student newspaper. From that small seed the urge to tell stories of a fabulous nature unfolded and he began to write with a serious intention in 1986.
After getting several short stories published in various small press SF magazines, he made his first professional sale was to the Other Edens anthology in 1988, followed by more small press appearances leading to another pro-sale to Interzone in 1992. Read the rest of this entry »
COLE, Myke
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Myke Cole is the author of the SHADOW OPS military fantasy series. The first book, CONTROL POINT will be published in the United States by Ace (Penguin) in February 2012, and by Headline (Hachette) in the UK in summer of 2012. As a security contractor, government civilian and military officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Counterterrorism to Cyber Warfare to Federal Law Enforcement…
DAVIDSON, John Hugh
John Hugh Davidson was born in Glasgow but grew up in eastern Canada. He is bilingual in English and French and, as well as a Master’s Degree in Economics, has been granted a Diplôme d’études françaises (Littérature) from the Ministère de l’education nationale de la France in Paris.
Davidson has published a number of novellas and short stories in The Tamarack Review, The Canadian Forum and on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio service. Read the rest of this entry »
de BODARD, Aliette
Aliette de Bodard is a Computer Engineer who moonlights as a speculative fiction writer in her spare time. She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Polytechnique, one of France’s top engineering schools, and went on to find a job which involved two of her loves, mathematics and programming computers.
She was already writing science fiction and fantasy short stories during her studies, though it took her a few years to get them published. She won Second Place in Writers of the Future in 2006.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. She currently lives in Paris… Read the rest of this entry »
FOYLE, Naomi
Poet, novelist, performer and professional Tarot Card reader, Naomi Foyle was born in London, grew up in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, and after a decade of globetrotting, now lives in Brighton.
Her writing, which often draws on her peripatetic past, is motivated by the paradoxical desire to both expose painful truths and celebrate the intense sensual beauty of life. Read the rest of this entry »
FUREY, Maggie
Maggie Furey grew up in Northumberland, an area with a past rich in battle, lore and legend. She was born with a rare heart condition, and as her physical activities were very limited during her childhood, she turned to books for solace, adventure and entertainment, constructing rich worlds of imagination that have stood her in very good stead in her later career.
As she grew up, her health vastly improved by surgery, she qualified as a teacher, and went on to work as an advisor in the Durham reading and Language Resources Centre. She also organised children’s book fairs and became a regular reviewer on the BBC Radio Newcastle programme ‘Children and Books’.
“It’s clearly fate,” she says. “Whatever I did in life, it always brought me back to books. Even when I was at school I was best in English, and my teacher always said I’d be a writer.” Read the rest of this entry »
GREEN, Simon
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New York Times best-selling author Simon Green is one of the genre’s most prolific novelists. Among his numerous multi- volume series are The Twilight of the Empire, Deathstalker, Hawk and Fisher, The Forest Kingdom, Nightside and most recently his Secret History sequence published in the UK by Gollancz and in the US by Roc. Read the rest of this entry »
GRIFFITHS, Richard
Richard Griffiths is a historian and literary scholar, born in Wales in 1935, who has held university posts in Cambridge, Oxford, Cardiff and London.
He has published extensively on the European Right - Marshal Pétain (1970), Fellow Travellers of the Right (1980), The Use of Abuse: the Polemics of the Dreyfus Affair (1991), Patriotism Perverted (1998), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Fascism (2000) and Fascism (2005). Another area has been Welsh social history – his The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys is due for publication in 2009.
In literature, one of his main specialities has been French and British Catholic literature – The Reactionary Revolution: the Catholic Revival in French Literature (1966), Claudel: A Reappraisal (1968), Le Singe de Dieu: François Mauriac (1996) and Catholic Literature in Britain 1870-1970 (forthcoming, 2010),… Read the rest of this entry »
HARRIS, Charlaine
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It has taken twenty-five years of hard work for Charlaine Harris to become an overnight success. She has written all sorts from poetry and plays to novels in many genres – mysteries, crime, romance – but it is her supernatural stories that have turned her into a true global superstar. The hugely popular Sookie Stackhouse series about a “telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures” has been published in Japan, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia as well as here and, of course in the US and this list of territories continues to expand. Read the rest of this entry »
HEMINGWAY, Amanda
Amanda Hemingway started very young with a bizarre occult novella, The Alchemist (1980), published by Faber in the Introduction series for new writers. She then produced Pzyche (1983), an award-winning SF novel, before diversifying into other genres.
She wrote a couple of psychological thrillers and some neo-Gothic melodrama, all largely well-received by the critics. In the late nineties she returned to SF/fantasy – her prefered field of work – with two trilogies under assorted names. Read the rest of this entry »
HODDER, Mark
Mark Hodder is descended from John Angell, a pirate who sailed with Captain Kidd. According to family legend, Angell invested most of his ill-gotten gains in land, particularly in Angell Town near Brixton in London. Anyone who can provide irrefutable legal evidence that they’re descended from Angell will inherit the land, which is estimated to now be worth at least 64 million pounds. Over the course of generations, members of the family, seeking to gain the fortune, have lost one in trying to prove the link, and hordes of people who have no connection with the family at all have adopted the name in order to make a claim. As a result, the family tree is extremely tangled and a legal connection to the pirate’s treasure is almost certainly impossible to establish.
HODGES, Andrew
Andrew Hodges is unusual for combining his work as a professional mathematician with writing of a distinctive personal and historical character. In 1983 he published Alan Turing: the enigma, the biography of Alan Turing (1912-1954) which succeeded in wrapping together Turing’s life as the founder of computer science, chief World War II codebreaker and as persecuted gay man.
Andrew Hodges’s work brought this hidden story to a wide readership and it has remained in print ever since. It has appeared in numerous translations, and was dramatised for stage and television by High Whitemore under the title Breaking the Code. Read the rest of this entry »
HUBBARD, Sue
At various times an antique dealer and a small holder, Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and freelance art critic. Her work explores both the dark and the light within human experience. Through an evocation of the perceived and actual world and the careful attention to the detail of things – be it art or nature, the incidental or the everyday – she attempts to give voice to our deepest emotions. Her subjects are those of love, loss and memory. She writes of our vulnerabilities, so often concealed, and through their disclosure, suggests the possibility of renewal.
A Hawthornden Fellow, she was twice winner of the London Writers competition and held the residency as the Poetry Society’s first-ever Public Art Poet, during which she created a number of site-specific poems for a visual arts project in Birmingham’s jewellery quarter. Read the rest of this entry »
HUFF, Tanya
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TANYA HUFF is one of today’s most popular fantasy/sf authors. Following three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve, a year studying forestry, a winter hanging around Universal Studios backlot, studies for a degree in radio and television arts and some time selling sunglasses off a pushcart after budget cuts led to a staff reduction at the CBC, she turned to writing in the mid-80s, and now resides in rural Ontario, a few hours from Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »
HUGHES, Matthew
Born in Liverpool, Matthew Hughes moved with his family to Canada when he was just five years old and in his own words “I’ve made my living as a writer all of my adult life, first as a journalist, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and — from 1979 until a few years back– as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia. I am a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers and I used to belong to Mensa Canada, but these days I’m conserving my energies to write fiction.” Read the rest of this entry »
HUMAN, Charles
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LICHTENSTEIN, Rachel
Rachel Lichtenstein is an artist, writer, oral historian and curator. She is the author of Rodinsky’s Whitechapel (1999), Keeping Pace (2003), A Little Dust Whispered (2004) and the co-author with Iain Sinclair of the highly praised Rodinsky’s Room (1999). Her latest book, On Brick Lane, was published in 2008 to much critical acclaim. On Brick Lane was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize last year and is the first of a trilogy of books on London Streets for publishers Hamish Hamilton. Volumes on Hatton Garden and Portobello Road will follow. She has also written essays, short stories and book reviews for periodicals, newspapers and radio.
Lichtenstein has exhibited her artwork internationally, including venues such as The Whitechapel Gallery, The Tate Modern, The Barbican Art Gallery and The Jerusalem Theatre. Her public artwork is on permanent display in Brick Lane and The Holocaust Museum in Nottingham.
She is also a tour guide of the Jewish East End and regularly lectures at Literary Festivals, universities and museums… Read the rest of this entry »
LYLE, Anne
Anne Lyle was born in what is known to the tourist industry as ‘Robin Hood Country’, and grew up fascinated by English history, folklore, and swashbuckling heroes.
Unfortunately there was little demand in 1970s Nottinghamshire for diminutive swordswomen, so she studied sensible subjects like science and languages instead. She now lives in Cambridge, where she works as a web developer for one of the world’s largest medical charities Read the rest of this entry »
MACLEOD, Ian R
The multi-award winning author of The Light Ages, House of Storms, The Great Wheel and a host of short stories and novellas, Ian R. Macleod has become one of the most distinctive and exciting voices in British science fiction – a fact born out by his most recent novel Song of Time (PS Publishing) winning the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award… Read the rest of this entry »
MAXEY, James
James Maxey started his first novel at age seven, a sea-spanning tale of ghosts and pirates. He only managed to get about 100 words in before encountering his first case of writer’s block. He’s now a bit more proficient at finishing what he’s started, having gone on to publish over a dozen short stories in Asimov’s, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and numerous anthologies.
His four novels to date are the cult-classic superhero tale NOBODY GETS THE GIRL and the Dragon Age trilogy of BITTERWOOD, DRAGONFORGE, and DRAGONSEED. Read the rest of this entry »
McDONALD, Ian
Born in Manchester and raised in Northern Ireland (where he still lives) Ian McDonald is an award winning Science Fiction author. His novels include Brasyl (2007), River of Gods (2004), Ares Express (2001), Kirinya (1998) and Desolation Road (1988) and he been extensively published all over the world.
Ian is also also a prolific writer of novellas and short fiction and his work has appeared in many anthologies and collections.
Amongst the many accolades he has received for his fiction are the BSFA award (in both the novel and short fiction categories), the Philip K. Dick award, the Hugo award, Read the rest of this entry »
McHUGO, John
John McHugo is an Arabist, international lawyer and former academic researcher into Sufism who is well known in political, legal, cultural and trade circles concerned with relations between the West and the Arab World.
He is a member of the Executive of the Council for Arab British Understanding (CAABU), the Chair of Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine, and a director of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce.
While a partner in the Law Firm Trowers & Hamlins, he specialised in boundary disputes between Arab countries, and latterly in the international law issues affecting Israel and its neighbours. Read the rest of this entry »
MEANEY, John
John Meaney is the author of six novels, most recently Bone Song (2007, Gollancz) and Dark Blood (2008, Gollancz, and published by Bantam Spectra in the US under the title Black Blood) – gothic science fiction/suspense set in the city of Tristopolis beneath always-indigo skies, where energy comes from necroflux reactor piles containing the bones of the dead. Lieutenant Donal Riordan is a hardbitten cop with a wraith and a zombie among his colleagues, dark mages among his enemies, surrounded by conspiracy.
Meaney’s first novel, To Hold Infinity (1998), was one of the Daily Telegraph Books of the Year (1st choice in SF/Fantasy), and it was followed by the Nulapeiron sequence of Paradox (2000, Independent Publishers Book of the Year, SF/Fantasy category), Context (2001) and Resolution (2005) .
His short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine and various ‘best of year’ anthologies. He has been shortlisted three times for the BSFA Award. Read the rest of this entry »
MOON, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Moon was born March 7, 1945, and grew up in McAllen, Texas, graduating from McAllen High School in 1963. She has a B.A. in History from Rice University (1968) and another in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) with graduate work in Biology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
She served in the USMC from 1968 to 1971, first at MCB Quantico and then at HQMC. She married Richard Moon, a Rice classmate and Army officer, in 1969; they moved to the small central Texas town where they still live in 1979. They have one son, born in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »
MOSLEY, Victoria
Victoria Mosley is a poet and spoken word artist. She has published two poetry collections – The Dry Season (1998) and Crazy Love (2002) . Her third collection As in a Dream by Victoria Mosley and The Sublimes was released on CD in 2004 and is available to listen to free online here.
She runs events and club nights in London and beyond, from the Groucho Club to the ICA, Austin Texas to Indonesia, from Jazz nights and Charity Events to new bands. She has worked for the British Council in Surabaya and in Canada, has produced and presented her own radio shows… Read the rest of this entry »
PENROSE, Roger
World renowned mathematical physicist Roger Penrose is the author of nearly a dozen books, including The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (2004), White Mars Or The Mind Set Free (with Brian Aldiss, 1999), The Emperor’s New Mind (1989) and The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking, 1996). His various works have been published world-wide.
He was knighted in 1994 for services to science. Read the rest of this entry »
POWERS, Tim
United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Russell Galen at the Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.
One of the pre-eminent and most respected names in the field of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tim Powers is the multi award-winning author of twelve novels including THE ANUBIS GATES (winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award and widely regarded now as a classic of the genre), LAST CALL and DECLARE (both of which won the World Fantasy Award for best novel) and ON STRANGER TIDES , a pirate fantasy upon which the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean is loosely based and which is acknowledged as the inspiration for the classic computer game, The Secret of Monkey Island. Other novels include DINNER AT DEVIANT’S PALACE, THE STRESS OF REGARD, EXPIRATION DATE, EARTHQUAKE WEATHER and THREE DAYS TO NEVER. Powers has also written a number of short stories, the latest of which, Parallel Lines, appeared in the STORIES anthology (2010) edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio.
PYE, Jim
Jim Pye is a psychotherapist and writer. He works in a university, as a counsellor and adviser to mature students, and with recovering addicts for an agency in the voluntary sector. He has published two books – both with Oxford University Press.
Invisible Children (1989), is a vivid study of children who vanish from everyone’s radar in adolescence. They give no-one any trouble; they seem to slide through life with no-one noticing them, disguising themselves as unremarkable. Invisible Children was widely reviewed, The Independent publishing a half-page feature about the book…. Read the rest of this entry »
ROBSON, Justina
Justina Robson has written seven novels. Her debut Silver Screen was published by Macmillan in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award and was followed by Mappa Mundi (2001), Natural History (2003) and Living Next Door to the God of Love (2005).
She is presently writing the concluding instalments of a five (or seven) book sequence, Quantum Gravity, published by Gollancz (and by Pyr in the US) and very much a mixture of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Of this Justina says ‘[It] is, among other things, one of those kick-ass-female-protagonist-with-vampire-boyfriend things so beloved of Zeno’s own John Berlyne. Except he isn’t a vampire – he’s an elf. She’s a machine. The other boyfriend is a demon. It’s exactly what you would expect from a serious SF writer. ‘ Read the rest of this entry »
RUDOLF, Anthony
Anthony Rudolf is an autobiographer, poet, literary critic, editor and translator. Recently he completed a volume of short stories and is now working on two new memoirs. A volume of prose/verse sequences is to appear from Northern House/Carcanet in 2009.
His many books and pamphlets include Engraved in Flesh (a study of Piotr Rawicz, 2nd edition 2007), Mandorla (poetry, 1999), The Arithmetic of Memory (autobiography, 1999), Wine from Two Glasses (Adam Lecture, King’s College, London) and the prize-winning At an Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi’s War against Oblivion (literary criticism, 1990 and 1991).
He has translated fiction (e.g. Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece), drama and, in particular, Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry (most recently Yesterday’s Wilderness Kingdom, 2001). His other books include pioneering anthologies of contemporary French Poetry and 20th century Jewish poets from all languages… Read the rest of this entry »
RUTLEDGE, Ian
Ian Rutledge is an economist and historian with a special interest in Energy and the Middle East.
He is a partner in SERIS (Sheffield Energy & Resources Information Services) and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Sheffield University Management School.
Ian graduated in Economics and Social Science in the University of Cambridge in 1968 and received his PhD in 1973. He has taught both economics and sociology in the Universities of London and Sheffield, as well as spending three years working for British Coal Corporation. He is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Arabic and French… Read the rest of this entry »
SANDERSON, Brandon
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Brandon Sanderson is the author of six novels. His debut novel a stand-alone fantasy, Elantris, was published by Tor in 2005 and was followed by the highly acclaimed Mistborn Trilogy, comprising The Final Empire (2006), The Well of Ascension (2007) and The Hero of Ages (2008). He has also written two YA novels for Scholastic with further titles in the pipeline.
Following the death of fantasy author Robert Jordan in 2007, Brandon was chosen to complete the twelfth and final title in Jordan’s huge and epic sequence The Wheel of Time. Entitled A Memory of Light, this book is currently scheduled for publication by Tor some time in late 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
SCHULER, C. J.
C J Schüler is the co-author, with John Man, of the best-selling Traveler’s Atlas (Barron, 1999) and a contributor to the acclaimed Atlas of the Settling of North America (ed. Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Macmillan, 1996).
He had edited numerous travel books for the Rough Guides and the Cadogan series, and now writes regularly on literature and the arts for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
SINCLAIR, Iain
Iain Sinclair is the author of many books including Lud Heat (1975) ; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987) ; Downriver (1991, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Radon Daughters (1994) ; Lights Out for the Territory (1997) ; Rodinsky’s Room (1999 with Rachel Lichtenstein); Landor’s Tower (2001) ; London Orbital (2003) ; Dining on Stones (2005) ; and Edge of the Orison (2006). His latest book, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire was published by Hamish Hamilton in February 2009.
He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances (2006). He lives in Hackney. Read the rest of this entry »
SPERRING, Kari
Kari Sperring grew up dreaming of joining the musketeers and saving France, only to discover that the company had been disbanded in 1776 and anyway never admitted women. Disappointed, instead she studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University, going on to do a PhD in the same department about 11th century Welsh foreign policy (yes, really). Read the rest of this entry »
SPINELLI, Ernesto
Professor Ernesto Spinelli, PhD has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential analysis as applied to psychology and psychotherapy and, more recently, the related arenas of coaching, facilitation and conflict mediation.
He is a Fellow of both the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered existential psychotherapist as well as a Founding Member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. In 1999, he was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology. In 2000, Ernesto was granted the BPS Counselling Psychology Division Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession.Between 1997 and 2003, he was the Academic Dean of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College. Read the rest of this entry »
STAINFORTH, Gordon
Writer, photographer and philosopher Gordon Stainforth is perhaps best known for his award-winning books on the British mountains, particularly Eyes to the Hills, which won the 1992 Thomas Cook Illustrated Travel Book Award, and The Cuillin, which won the 1994 Banff Mountain Book Festival Best Book of Mountain Image.
Until the mid-1980s Gordon worked in the TV and Film industries, most notably as the music editor on Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining. Over the last two decades he has also worked as a book, exhibition, and website designer, and as a reviewer, film festival judge, and lecturer. Read the rest of this entry »
SWIFT, E.J.
E J (Emma) Swift is a writer and novelist of science-fiction and fantasy.
Her debut novel OSIRIS will be published by Night Shade Books in summer 2012, and is the first in a trilogy, The Osiris Project.
TALLERMAN, David
David Tallerman was born and raised in the northeast of England. A long and confused period of education ended with an MA dissertation on the literary history of seventeenth century witchcraft that somehow incorporated references to both Kate Bush and H P Lovecraft.
Needless to say, this didn’t have a great impact on subsequent jobs as a cucumber packer, telephone interviewer and civil servant, and it was only when he sidestepped into the world of computing that David’s study of the dark arts really began to pay off. He currently roams the UK as an itinerant IT Technician-for-hire, applying theories of animism and sympathetic magic to computer repair and taking devoted care of his bonsai tree familiar. Read the rest of this entry »
THEOBALD, John
John Owen Theobald is an author and researcher. Born and raised in Eastern Canada, he moved to the UK to study the poetry of Keats, and in 2009 received a PhD from the University of St. Andrews.
His first novel, THE DESERTERS’ ORCHESTRA tells the remarkable story of three Russian musicians who helped win a war. Set in 1941 Leningrad, this novel explores how they endured the deadliest siege in history and found themselves in the makeshift orchestra premiering Shostakovich’s defiant Seventh Symphony – broadcast across the city, the country, and directly into the trenches of the surrounding German soldiers. Read the rest of this entry »
TIDHAR, Lavie
Born on a kibbutz in Israel, Lavie Tidhar’s unusual childhood has inspired a life devoted in equal parts to books and to travelling. ‘I was afraid I’d end up one of those people with an inherently boring life,’ he said, ‘so I set out to make it more interesting.’
Lavie has lived and travelled in Southern Africa for years and is a keen player of the ancient game of Bao. He’s since spent nearly a decade living in London before setting off again. He spent a year living in a bamboo shack on a remote island in the South Pacific – “I still miss the volcanoes, sometimes,” he said – and two years in South East Asia, followed by a couple of years back in Israel. He is now back living in London, a city he finds endlessly captivating.
Lavie is a prolific writer, keeping up a steady stream of highly-regarded novels, novellas and short stories. He has been described as an ‘emerging master’ by LOCUS Magazine, with his work compared to the late, great Philip K. Dick’s in both the Guardian and the Financial Times. His novels include the Bookman Histories trilogy of steampunk novels – comprising The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012) – which borrow equally from mythology, classic literature, pulp fiction and noir and kung-fu cinema – and the ground-breaking alternative history novel Osama (2011), shortlisted for the BSFA Award. Read the rest of this entry »
TREGILLIS, Ian
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Ian Tregillis was born and raised in the United States, where his parents had settled after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story involves a stolen horse, or so he’s been told.) He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a Ph.D. in physics for his research on radio galaxies and quasars. After finishing his thesis, he moved to the American Southwest just as soon as he found a group of people willing to hire him. He’s still a bit surprised by this because he has no useful skills.
VOLK, Stephen
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Stephen Volk is the creator/writer of the multi award-winning ITV drama series Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, and the notorious, almost legendary, BBCTV ‘Halloween hoax’ drama Ghostwatch.
An established screenwriter in Britain and the USA, his credits include Ken Russell’s Gothic, a retelling of the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein story; The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin, and Octane.He also won a BAFTA for his short film script The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans. Read the rest of this entry »
WALSH, Michael
For almost all his (full-time) working life Michael Walsh was a member of the academic staff of Heythrop College, University of London. This is a Jesuit foundation, and for twenty years he was a member of the Society of Jesus.
Now married with two daughters, he lives in North London. Given his background, his expertise is in Catholicism, particularly in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, but he also frequently writes and broadcasts on contemporary religious issues on both British, Canadian and US television channels, and on BBC radio – as well as other radio stations in North America and South Africa. He has a particular expertise in the history of the papacy, and has just completed a revision of J.N.D. Kelly’s Oxford Dictionary of Popes for OUP. His best-known book, however, is The Secret World of Opus Dei, which has been translated into a large number of languages (including Korean!)… Read the rest of this entry »
WARRINGTON, Freda
Freda Warrington is known for the lush sensuality of her writing, in which she creates compelling characters and weirdly atmospheric worlds.
Her eighteen novels so far include Elfland (2009), A Taste of Blood Wine (1992), The Jewelfire Trilogy (1999, 2000, 2001) and The Court of the Midnight King (2003). She won The Dracula Society Award for Best Novel with Dracula the Undead (1997), and the British Fantasy Society short-listed The Amber Citadel (1999) for Best Fantasy Novel. Her earlier novels, A Blackbird in Silver (1986), A Blackbird in Darkness (1986), A Blackbird in Amber (1988) and A Blackbird inTwilight (1988), have now been reissued by Immanion Press both in both separate and omnibus editions. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies, the latest of which is Myth-Understandings published by Newcon Press… Read the rest of this entry »
WESTON, Richard
Richard Weston is Professor of Architecture at Cardiff University and director of Richard Weston Studio. His monograph on the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto won the 1995 Sir Banister Fletcher Prize, while Modernism received the International Book Award of the American Institute of Architects in 1996.
Recent books include the first comprehensive account of the work of Jørn Utzon, architect of Sydney Opera House; Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century; and Materials, Form and Architecture, hailed as ‘a wonderfully perceptive and readable book’ in The Architects’ Journal. Read the rest of this entry »
YOUERS, Rio
Rio Youers has drawn praise from some of the most noteworthy names in the speculative fiction genre. He is the author of two novellas, Mama Fish (Shroud Publishing) and Old Man Scratch (PS Publishing)—the latter earning him a British Fantasy Award nomination in 2010. His novelette, This is the Summer of Love, was the title story of PS Publishing’s first new-look Postscripts anthology, a publication in which Rio has appeared three times. His short fiction has also been published by IDW Publishing and Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Rio’s debut novel, END TIMES, was released by PS Publishing in the autumn of 2010. His first short story collection, Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, will follow in 2011, with a short novel, Westlake Soul (ChiZine Publications) slated for release in the spring of 2012.