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Colin Falconer (born Colin Bowles in North London, 1953) is the author of sixteen novels, including 'Harem', 'When We Were Gods', and 'Anastasia'.

He moved to Australia in his twenties and worked variously as a taxi driver, semi-professional soccer player and played guitar in rough pubs before joining an advertising agency. In 1984 he moved to Sydney to pursue a career as a writer.

He has worked as a freelance journalist contributing articles to many newspapers and magazines in Australia and overseas including The Australian, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, The Bulletin, Qantas magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, GH (UK), She (UK). He was at various times a columnist for the National Times, Ansett Inflight Magazine, Gourmet Traveller and The Australian Women's Weekly. His very first paid piece in The National Times led to him being sued by RSL president Bruce Ruxton. His proudest moment!

He also wrote for radio and television, while working on his first novel, 'Venom', which was eventually five years in the making.

He has been a full-time novelist since 1990, writing as Colin Bowles, Colin Falconer and Mark D’Arbanville, with his work published widely in Europe, the UK and the USA. His books have been translated into seventeen languages. He travels regularly to research his novels and has completed promotional tours for translations of his novels in Mexico, Turkey and Romania.

"Harem", the story of Suleiman the Magnificent, sold over 150,000 copies in Germany alone and Aztec was on the best seller lists in Mexico for four months. Anastasia, a moving and evocative novel based around the legend of the missing Russian princess, and My Beautiful Spy, a love story set against the haunting backdrops of wartime Bucharest and Istanbul, were both best sellers in Australia.

He travels regularly to research his novels. An Australian critic once introduced him to an audience this way: "Colin Falconer's novels are based on dedicated research and a profound knowledge of his subject, stories of passion and human frailty drawn on a vast canvas, about the perennial nature of love and the human spirit."

As Mark D’Arbanville, he published his first contemporary novel, THE NAKED HUSBAND with Bantam in 2004. It sold over 60,000 copies in Australia and reached No9 on the Australian Bestselling Fiction list for that year. Its sequel, THE NAKED HEART was published in 2005.

As Colin Bowles he has published six novels for children and young adults. His last, NIGHTS IN THE SUN(2003) won the 2004 WA Premier’s Literary Award for the Best Children’s Book of the Year.

He has written nine humour books, the latest I’VE BEEN FLUSHED FROM THE BATHROOM OF YOUR HEART - the 100 Worst Songs Ever(Allen & Unwin) was published in October 2008. An adult non-fiction title THE YEAR WE SEIZED THE DAY, co-authored with Elizabeth Best — is an inspirational memoir of the authors’ 1000 km walk of the Camino in Spain and was published Allen & Unwin in 2007. This was his first travel book. His second saw him running with the bulls in Pamplona, chasing tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma, cage shark diving in South Africa, and getting tear gassed in La Paz on his way to the Death Road in Bolivia.

He has been a guest at numerous Writers’ Festivals in throughout Australia and recipient of numerous Writer-in-Resident grants.

He also worked for fifteen years as a volunteer ambulance officer in his spare time. His wife of twenty years, Helen, died in 2002. He has two grown daughters. He is currently based in Adelaide in South Australia, but he travels constantly.

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Total Books: 98
LORD OF THE ATLAS
2021 - Lord of the Atlas [EPIC HISTORICAL FICTION] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9798510353136
ISBN-10: N/A
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Lucifer Falls
2020 - Lucifer Falls [Charlie George] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781472127983
ISBN-10: 1472127986
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Innocence Dies
2019 - Innocence Dies (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781472128010
ISBN-10: 147212801X
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Loving Liberty Levine
2019 - Loving Liberty Levine (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781503904002
ISBN-10: 1503904008
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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LIVE FOR ME
2018 - Live for Me (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781731211408
ISBN-10: 1731211406
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A VAIN AND INDECENT WOMAN
2018 - A Vain and Indecent Woman [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781718061484
ISBN-10: 171806148X
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Romance
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Opium a haunting novel of love ambition and destiny
2018 - Opium a Haunting Novel of Love Ambition and Destiny [20TH CENTURY STORIES] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980512097
ISBN-10: 1980512094
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Sleeping With The Enemy
2018 - Sleeping with the Enemy [20th Century Stories] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980512974
ISBN-10: 1980512973
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
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Anastasia A timeless love story of passion survival and mystery
2018 - Anastasia a Timeless Love Story of Passion Survival and Mystery [Twentieth Century Stories] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980485759
ISBN-10: 1980485755
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Havana Girl passion and revolution in nineteen fifties Cuba
2018 - Havana Girl Passion and Revolution in Nineteen Fifties Cuba (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980442684
ISBN-10: 1980442681
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
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LA Woman A novel of love and dreams in sixties Hollywood
2018 - La Woman a Novel of Love and Dreams in Sixties Hollywood [Havana Girl] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980443100
ISBN-10: 1980443106
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Romance
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Saigon Wife love sacrifice and redemption in war torn Saigon
2018 - Saigon Wife Love Sacrifice and Redemption in War Torn Saigon [Havana Girl] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980443261
ISBN-10: 1980443262
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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My Beautiful Spy a world war 2 spy novel of passion and intrigue
2018 - My Beautiful Spy a World War 2 Spy Novel of Passion and Intrigue [twentieth century stories] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980444039
ISBN-10: 198044403X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
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Venom
2018 - Venom [Colin Falconer crime] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980368144
ISBN-10: 1980368147
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Valhalla Atlantis
2018 - Valhalla Atlantis (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980307846
ISBN-10: 1980307849
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Silk Road A haunting story of adventure romance and courage
2018 - Silk Road a Haunting Story of Adventure Romance and Courage [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980297147
ISBN-10: 1980297142
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Stigmata
2018 - Stigmata [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980287827
ISBN-10: 1980287821
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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East India Even if God forsakes you I will find you
2018 - East India Even If God Forsakes You I Will Find You [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980275985
ISBN-10: 198027598X
Genre: Romance
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A Great Love of Small Proportion passion romance and art in Renaissance Spain
2018 - A Great Love of Small Proportion Passion Romance and Art in Renaissance Spain [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980265740
ISBN-10: 1980265747
Genre: Romance
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Harem
2018 - Harem [Classical Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980219125
ISBN-10: 1980219125
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
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AZTEC the story of Cortes and La Malinche
2018 - Aztec the Story of Cortes and La Malinche [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781980200048
ISBN-10: 1980200041
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Romance
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2017 - Cleopatra Daughter of the Nile [Classic Historical Fiction] (Paperback)
2015 - The William Shakespeare Detective Agency the Dark Lady [The Willaim Shakespeare Detective Agency - Volume 2] (Paperback)
2014 - Naked in Saigon [The Naked Series - Volume 3] (Paperback)
2013 - Israel (Paperback)
2013 - Aztec (Paperback)Paperback
2013 - Freedom (Paperback)
2013 - Zion (Paperback)
2013 - Naked in Havana [Naked Series - Volume 1] (Paperback)
2013 - Air Opium [Volume 2] (Paperback)
2013 - Opium [Volume 1] (Paperback)
1998 - Der Lavendelgarten [German Edition] (Paperback)
1995 - Triad (Hardcover)Paperback
1993 - Fury (Paperback)
La Ruta De La Seda [Novela Historica] (Paperback)