• (reprint Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 9780312287689)
• (reprint Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 9780312342807)
• The Elfish Gene Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 9781405091268
• Mr Wrong Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 9780230709690

Published under Pen name MD Lachlan

• Wolfsangel - 2010

Travel Writing

Barrowcliffe himself fit into a different range of archetypes. Elfish Gene amounts to a portrait of the artist as a young nerd.

Everything about Mark Barrowcliffe’s The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange screams of its geek credibility. The cover of the book features a yellowed D&D character sheet and a red dragon. Its website has a fantasy character generator. Wizards of the Coast are even working to promote the book.

Let me start off by stating what a talented writer Mr. Barrowcliffe is. He has written several other books, all of which appear to be fiction. In this case, what Mr. Barrowcliffe has written is an extremely engaging memoir of his childhood, chronicling the imagined adventures and reality-based misadventures of a socially awkward teen in 1970s Britain. The more specific focus is on how the adolescent Barrowcliffe, due to his social awkwardness, retreated into the world of role-playing games, which were just coming into their own during this period. Based, on this book, I definitely would like to try his fiction.