Mark Chadbourn

Agent:  Conrad Williams

Biography: Mark Chadbourn is a best-selling novelist and TV scriptwriter specialising in crime, science fiction, and historical fiction and fantasy.

His TV work includes SHADOW STATE, developed for the BBC, THE SPIKE for ITV, THE TRUTH for Lionsgate and WELCOME TO WAKELING for Keshet. He’s written over fifty episodes of the BBC1 drama DOCTORS. ‘He is currently working on a detection series for Hattrick Mercurio.

“Mark Chadbourn has an intellectual heft to his stories, with themes of myth-making and the nature of power.” – Antonia Senior, The Times

His historical novels about the English hero HEREWARD became instant bestsellers under his pseudonym James Wilde and have been published all over the world and translated into many languages. Shortly before his death, the global bestseller Wilbur Smith contacted Mark to ask if he would finish the adventure writer’s publishing contract. Three have already been published – THE NEW KINGDOM, TITANS OF WAR and TESTAMENT with a fourth and final volume coming soon. All continued Smith’s tradition by reaching the top of the sales charts.

Mark Chadbourn is a two-time winner of the British Fantasy Award.

As a journalist, he has written for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent.

Praise:

“Think the spirit of V for Vendetta mixed with Neal Stephenson’s historicism and infused by the spirit of Shakespeare’s Puck.” – Edge magazine

“…an author whose work has redefined the boundaries of dark fantasy. The colossal story has never been less than fascinating, and has easily rivalled the most riveting, original work of the genre.” – SF Site