London Noir (25 page)
M
ARK
P
ILKINGTON
edits and publishes
Strange Attractor
Journal
and has written for the
Guardian, Fortean Times, Plan
B, Arthur,
and others. He is currently working on a feature documentary film and performs with experimental musical outfits including Raagnagrok, Stella Maris Drone Orchestra, and Disinformation. More info at
www.strangeattractor.co.uk
.
S
YLVIE
S
IMMONS
,
one the best-known names in rock writing, was born and raised in North London. She is the author of
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes,
the book J.G. Ballard declared his favorite of 2001. These days she writes for
MOJO
and the
Guardian
. Her latest book is the short story collection
Too Weird for Ziggy
, and her latest address is San Francisco.
J
ERRY
S
YKES
has twice won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Short Story Dagger. His stories have appeared in various publications on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as in Italy and Japan. He was born and raised in Yorkshire, but has lived in London for over twenty years. His first novel will be published in Fall 2006.
C
ATHI
U
NSWORTH
moved to Ladbroke Grove in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with
Sounds
and
Melody Maker,
before coediting the arts journal
Purr
and then
Bizarre
magazine. Her first novel,
The Not Knowing,
was published by Serpent’s Tail in August 2005.
M
ARTYN
W
AITES
was born and brought up in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the northeast of England, but once he was able to make his own mind up about where he lived, moved to London. He now lives in East London, and his latest book is
The Mercy Seat.
M
ICHAEL
W
ARD
was born in Vancouver in 1967 and grew up in Toronto before moving to Hull, East Yorkshire when he was eleven. He briefly studied philosophy at Leicester University and moved to London in 1987, where he soon gave up a promising career sorting mail for the British Council to play in a band. A chance meeting in a pub led him into journalism, a field in which he has worked as a freelancer since 1997. He lives in Notting Hill.
J
OHN
W
ILLIAMS
was born in Cardiff in 1961. He wrote a punk fanzine and played in bands before moving to London and becoming a journalist, writing for everyone from the
Face
to the
Financial Times.
He published his first book,
Into the Badlands,
in 1991, and his next,
Bloody Valentine,
in 1994. Following a subsequent libel action from the police, he turned to fiction and has now written five novels, including the London-set
Faithless
.
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