Mark Mills (writer)
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Mark Mills is a British writer of screenplays and novels. His first screenplay was BAFTA nominated short film One Night Stand starring Jemma Redgrave
and James Purefoy
in 1993; this won Mills a 'Best Screenplay' award at the Angers European First Film Festival in 1995.
Mills' first novel was "Amagansett", later reissued under the title The Whaleboat House
published in 2004; this won him the 'Best Crime Novel by a Debut Author' at the Crime Writers' Association Award. His second novel, "The Savage Garden" was published in 2006. His third novel (The Information Officer) was published in April, 2009.
Jemma Redgrave
Jemma Redgrave is a fourth-generation English actress of the Redgrave family.-Early life/family:Born in London as Jemima Rebecca Redgrave, she is the daughter of the late actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, the late Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former fashion model. They divorced when Jemma was...
and James Purefoy
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome.-Early life and work:...
in 1993; this won Mills a 'Best Screenplay' award at the Angers European First Film Festival in 1995.
Mills' first novel was "Amagansett", later reissued under the title The Whaleboat House
The Whaleboat House
The Whaleboat House is a 2004 crime novel by British writer Mark Mills. It is set shortly after the Second World War with the events taking place in and around the small Long Island fishing village of Amagansett....
published in 2004; this won him the 'Best Crime Novel by a Debut Author' at the Crime Writers' Association Award. His second novel, "The Savage Garden" was published in 2006. His third novel (The Information Officer) was published in April, 2009.
Work
| Year | Work | Format | Award |
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| 1993 | One Night Stand | Short Film | Angers European First Film Festival – Best Screenplay (Won) |
| 1999 | The Lost Son | Film Film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects... |
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| 2002 | Global Heresy Global Heresy Global Heresy is a 2002 comedy-drama film about a highly successful American rock band recovering from the loss of their leader by going into seclusion in the United Kingdom.-Plot:... |
Film | |
| 2004 | The Reckoning | Film | |
| Amagansett (reissued as "The Whaleboat House The Whaleboat House The Whaleboat House is a 2004 crime novel by British writer Mark Mills. It is set shortly after the Second World War with the events taking place in and around the small Long Island fishing village of Amagansett.... ) |
Novel Novel A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.... |
Crime Writers' Association Award – Best Crime Novel by a Debut Author (Won) | |
| 2006 | The Savage Garden The Savage Garden The Savage Garden is the second novel written by British author Mark Mills. Set in 1958, the story tells of Cambridge student Adam Strickland and his trip to Tuscany, Italy; which started off as a chance to study the old, Italian renaissance architecture of a garden owned by the aristocratic Docci... |
Novel | |
| 2009 | The Information Officer | Novel |
External links
- Interview with Mark Mills
- Mark Mills on FantasticFiction.co.uk
- http://www.markmills.org.uk