Colin Falconer (writer)

Colin Falconer
Born	Colin Bowles 1953 London
Occupation	Writer
Website
http://www.colinfalconer.net

Colin Falconer (born Colin Bowles in North London, 1953) is an author of novels including Harem, When We Were Gods, and Anastasia. After a five-year hiatus, his latest novel, Silk Road, is due to be published in October 2011^{[dated info]} by Atlantic Books.^[1]

Biography

Born in North London, Falconer moved to Australia in his twenties and worked as a taxi driver and guitarist before joining an advertising agency.^[2] In 1984 he moved to Sydney to pursue a career as a writer.

He worked as a freelance journalist for various major magazines and wrote scripts for radio and television before becoming a full-time novelist in 1990. His books have been translated into 17 languages.^[3] He lived for many years near Margaret River, Western Australia, where he and his late wife, Helen, raised two daughters. While writing, he also worked for many years in the volunteer ambulance service.

Novels

Falconer's novels have an international audience. Harem (also published as The Sultan's Harem), the story of Suleiman the Magnificent, sold over 150,000 copies in Germany alone. Aztec was on the best seller lists in Mexico for four months.^{[citation needed]} Anastasia, a novel based around the legend of the missing Russian princess, and My Beautiful Spy, a love story set against wartime Bucharest and Istanbul, were both best sellers in Australia.^{[citation needed]}

A critic from The Australian described Falconer's novels as "based on dedicated research and a profound knowledge of his subject, stories of passion and human frailty drawn on a vast canvas, about the perennial nature of love and the human spirit."

Bibliography

• Venom
• Deathwatch
• Harem
• Fury
• Opium
• Triad
• Dangerous
• Disappeared
• Rough Justice
• The Certainty of Doing Evil
• When We Were Gods
• Aztec
• Feathered Serpent
• Anastasia
• The Sultan's Harem
• My Beautiful Spy
• Pearls
• Stairway to the Moon (sequel to Pearls)

References

1. ^ "Silk Road in the Atlantic Books Catalogue". Atlantic Books. http://www.atlantic-books.co.uk/our_books/browse_catalogue.asp?css=1&edition=3338. Retrieved 2011-07-14. 
2. ^ "Colin Falconer Author Bookshelf". Random House. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/8364/colin-falconer. Retrieved 2011-07-14. 
3. ^ "Colin Falconer". Conville & Walsh Literary Agency. http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/colin-falconer/. Retrieved 2011-07-14. 

External links

• Official Website

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Name	Falconer, Colin
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Date of birth	1953
Place of birth	London
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