Almost seriously, he’s been making things up for two decades now. That’s doubtless rather worrying given the day job as a journalist, but rest assured he remains dedicated to the pursuit of truth (no laughing in the cheap seats, please).

Mark was born and bred in Bradford, West Yorkshire, which probably explains a lot, but these days he lives in Stoke-on-Trent and works in Manchester. He studied political theory at Liverpool University before heading off for London to train as a journalist – but soon got mugged by the novelist within.

As a writer, he’s dabbled in poetry but his mainstay is fiction. With four completed novels under his belt, and a host of short stories, his work straddles the sci-fi/ horror/ fantasy continuum, but Mark’s writing isn’t defined by genre – he prefers to run with his imagination rather than be hamstrung by convention.