Colin Falconer (born 1953) is a pen name of Colin Bowles, who also uses the pen name Mark D'Abranville, 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
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, Bowles moved to Australia in his twenties and worked as a taxi driver and guitarist before joining an advertising agency. In 1984 he moved to
Sydney
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to pursue a career as a writer.
He worked as a freelance journalist for various major magazines and wrote scripts for
radio
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and
television
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before becoming a full-time novelist in 1990. His books have been translated into 17 languages. He lives in Australia with his wife.
Awards
Novels by Colin Falconer
Falconer novels have an international audience. ''Harem'' (also published as ''The Sultan's Harem''), the story of
Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I (; , ; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver () in his own realm, was the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman sultan between 1520 a ...
, 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)
*''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)
* ''Ends of the Earth'' (2023)
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"
References
External links
Official Website
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20th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian male writers
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian male novelists
English emigrants to Australia
Australian taxi drivers
1953 births
Living people
21st-century Australian male writers