Mark McCrum
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Mark McCrum

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Mark McCrum began his career as a travel writer, with well-received books about Southern Africa ('Happy Sad Land'), Australia ('No Worries') and Ireland ('The Craic'). He then turned to documenting two landmark television series in '1900 House' and 'Castaway 2000', both top ten bestsellers. This led to his revealing account of Robbie Williams on tour round Europe, 'Somebody Someday', which reached no.1 in both hardback and paperback. His next book was 'Going Dutch In Beijing', a lighthearted account of the differences in etiquette around the world, which was translated into eight languages. He then collaborated with the journalist Danny Danziger on a book about elusive words for common objects, 'The Thingummy' (released in the US as 'The Whatchamacallit'). His most recent non-fiction book is 'Walking With The Wounded', which tells the extraordinary story of four wounded soldiers and their successful attempt to reach the North Pole. As a ghost writer he has worked for a variety of clients, including victims of forced marriage ('Jack and Zena'), the TV explorer Bruce Parry ('Tribe') and global language expert Adam Jacot de Boinot ('The Meaning of Tingo'). As a journalist he has written for most of the nationals and magazines such as Conde Nast Traveller. In 2014, Mark started writing crime fiction, starting with 'The Festival Murders', set at a typically rural English literary festival, which was 'Thriller of the Week' in the Daily Mail, as well as being selected by the Independent for its 'Not the Booker' summer reads longlist. He followed this with 'Cruising to Murder', which takes his detective Francis Meadowes well away from the UK on a luxury cruise along the coast of West Africa, with a denouement on a remote island in Guinea-Bissau. ('An intriguing, gentle mystery … with the inevitable eclectic mix of characters - none of whom would be out of place in an Agatha Christie tale - it has a charm and wit that the mistress of crime herself might admire' - Daily Mail). He has recently published the third in the series, set at a creative writing retreat in a beautiful villa in the hills of Tuscany. This was selected as a 'book of the year' by both the Mail on Sunday and the Literary Review. He is currently working on a fourth adventure for Francis … More on his website www.markmccrum.com
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