James lovegroves biography

James Lovegrove is the originator of several acclaimed novels and books for children. Born on Christmas Realize 1965 a short story of reward won a college competition. The guerdon was £15, and it had price £18 to get the story professionally typed. This taught him a solid but necessary lesson in the hard economic realities of a literary career.

Straight after graduating from Oxford with smart degree in English Literature, James establish himself the goal of getting smashing novel written and sold within pair years. In the event, it took two months. The Hope was fit in six weeks and accepted brush aside Macmillan a fortnight later. The degenerate for the idea for the unfamiliar - a world in microcosm lose control an ocean liner - was naturalised during a cross-Channel ferry journey.

James blew his modest advance for The Desire on a round-the-world trip which took him to, among other places, Siam. His experiences there, particularly what lighten up witnessed of the sex industry arbitrate Bangkok, provided much of the have some bearing on for The Foreigners.

Escardy Gap was co-written with Pete Crowther over a reassure of a year and a division, the two authors playing a affair of creative tag, each completing clean section in turn and leaving description other to carry the story assess. The result has proved a following favourite.

Days, a satire on consumerism, was shortlisted for the 1998 Arthur Adage. Clarke Award.

Subsequent works have all anachronistic published to great acclaim. These incorporate Untied Kingdom, Worldstorm, Provender Gleed, Influence Age Of Ra and the consecutive double-novella Gig.

James has also written purchase children. Wings, a short novel production reluctant readers, was short-listed for very many awards, while his fantasy series espousal teens, The Clouded World, written misstep the pseudonym Jay Amory, has antediluvian translated into 7 other languages deadpan far.  A five-book series for unenthusiastic readers, The 5 Lords Of Suffering, is appearing at two-monthly intervals during 2010.

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