Mark Charan Newton
Mark Charan Newton | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Notable works | The Legends of the Red Sun |
| Website | |
| http://markcnewton.com/ | |
Mark Charan Newton is a British Fantasy author. He is best known for his fantasy series The Legends of the Red Sun, published by Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.[1] He was also a reviewer for The Ecologist, UK's oldest ecological magazine. [2]
Biography
Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, to an English father and Indian mother. His first and last names are English in origin, while his middle name is Indian in origin. He has a degree in Environmental Science and currently lives in Nottingham, UK.
He worked for a some time at the bookstore chain Ottakar's. It was during this time that he decided to start writing. This decision was influenced by reading China Mieville's novel, The Scar). At 23 years of age, he joined the publishing industry, working for the imprint Black Flame. He also co-founded an imprint called Solaris, which was later sold in 2009. In 2007, he sold rights for two books to Tor UK.
Bibliography
Like China Mieville, Mark Charan Newton describes his works as "New Weird".
The Legends of the Red Sun
- Nights of Villjamur (2009), ISBN 978-0345520845
- Beneath a dying red sun sits the proud and ancient city of Villjamur, capital of a mighty empire that now sits powerless against an encroaching ice age. As throngs of refugees gather outside the city gates, a fierce debate rages within the walls about the fate of these desperate souls. Then tragedy strikes—and the Emperor’s elder daughter, Jamur Rika, is summoned to serve as queen. Joined by her younger sister, Jamur Eir, the queen comes to sympathize with the hardships of the common people, thanks in part to her dashing teacher Randur Estevu, a man who is not what he seems. Meanwhile, the grisly murder of a councillor draws the attention of Inspector Rumex Jeryd. Jeryd is a rumel, a species of nonhuman that can live for hundreds of years and shares the city with humans, birdlike garuda, and the eerie banshees whose forlorn cries herald death. Jeryd’s investigation will lead him into a web of corruption—and to an obscene conspiracy that threatens the lives of Rika and Eir, and the future of Villjamur itself. But in the far north, where the drawn-out winter has already begun, an even greater threat appears, against which all the empire’s military and magical power may well prove useless—a threat from another world.
- City of Ruin (2010), ISBN 978-0230712591
- Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets.
- Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Villiren against a race that has broken through from some other realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire’s people.
- When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd requests help from the recently arrived Inqusitor Jeryd. He discovers this is not the only disapearance the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human.
- The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can anyone save a city that is already a ruin?
- The Book of Transformations (2011), ISBN 978-0230750067
- The Broken Isles (2012), ISBN 978-0230750074
Other
- The Reef
Drakenfield (upcoming)
He has also signed a deal with Tor UK for a new two book series, provisionally called Drakenfield and to be published in 2014.