Colin Falconer (writer) explained

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Colin Falconer/Bowles
Birth Name:	Colin Bowles
Birth Date:	1953
Birth Place:	London
Occupation:	Writer
Website:	Official website

Colin Falconer (born 1953) is a pen name of Colin Bowles, who also uses the pen name Mark D'Abranville,^[2] an English-born Australian writer. Works published under the pen name include contemporary and historical thrillers, and children's books. Under his original name he has also published books of satirical fiction; non-fiction books about language; television and radio scripts; and many magazine articles and columns.

Biography

Born in North London, Bowles moved to Australia in his twenties and worked as a taxi driver and guitarist before joining an advertising agency.^[3] 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.^[4] He lives in Australia with his wife.

Awards

Awards for Falconer's writing!Year!Title!Award!Result!Ref.

2000	Rough Justice	Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel	Finalist	^[5]
2001		Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel	Finalist

Novels by Colin Falconer

Falconer 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.

• Harem (1993)
• Aztec (1999)
• Feathered Serpent (2002)
• The Sultan's Harem (2004)
• Silk Road (2011)
• Anastasia (2012)
• Isabella: Braveheart of France (2013)
• East India (2014)
• Nights in the Sun
• Venom
• Deathwatch (1991)
• Fury Book 1: Live For Me (1993)^[6]
• Opium
• Triad
• Dangerous
• Disappeared
• Rough Justice
• The Certainty of Doing Evil
• When We Were Gods
• My Beautiful Spy
• Pearls
• Stairway to the Moon (sequel to Pearls)
• Surfing Mr. Petrovic
• Colossus
• Stigmata
• The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane (2017)
• Lord of the Atlas (2022)
• Fury Book 2: Sleeping with the Enemy (2022)^[7]
• Ends of the Earth (2023)^[8]

Works by Colin Bowles

These include:

• Wit's Dictionary
• G'day, Teach Yourself Australian
• The Year We Seized the Day (2007, with Elizabeth Best)
• "Flying Blind"
• "Flying Hazzard"

External links

• Official Website

Notes and References

1. Front Page with author name . 2023-05-08 . 10.15282/mohe.v9i1.411.s139 .
2. My Beautiful Spy, fronticepiece,
3. Web site: Colin Falconer Author Bookshelf. Random House. 14 July 2011. 23 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023170618/http://www.randomhouse.com/author/8364/colin-falconer. live.
4. Web site: Colin Falconer. Conville & Walsh Literary Agency. 14 July 2011. 8 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110908212454/http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/colin-falconer/. live.
5. Web site: Colin Falconer . 2023-03-04 . Stop, You're Killing Me! . 21 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921234133/http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/F_Authors/Falconer_Colin.html . live .
6. Book: Fury Book 1: Live For Me. B09Z9KWVVG.
7. Book: Fury Book 2: Sleeping With the Enemy. B0BCCVTMTN.
8. Book: Ends of the Earth). 064581475X.