Mark Mills

Mark Mills is a screenwriter and novelist who lives in Oxford. He was born in Switzerland and grew up in Sussex, England. He studied History and History of Art at Cambridge University and spent some years as a screenwriter, also living in France and Italy.

His credits include One Night Stand, 1993, a short film which won the Best Screenplay Award at the 1995 Angers European First Film Festival; The Lost Son, 1999; and The Reckoning, 2002, an adaptation of Barry Unsworth's Morality Play.

He has recently written six novels. The first, The Whaleboat House (2005), originally published as Amagansett (2004), is a crime novel set in post World War II Long Island and won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger. His second novel, The Savage Garden (2007) was shortlisted for the 2007 Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger. The Information Officer (2009) was shortlisted for the same award in 2009. His fourth novel is House of the Hanged (2011), a tale set on the French Riviera in the 1930s. 

His most recent novels are The Long Shadow (2014) and Waiting for Doggo (2014).