Frankenstein’s Legions

About the author

John Whitbourn has had nine novels published in the UK, USA and Russia after winning the BBC & Victor Gollancz First Fantasy Novel prize with A Dangerous Energy in 1991.

Most recently, his published novels include the Downs-Lord trilogy concerning the establishment of empire in an alternative, monster-ridden England. Whitbourn’s works have received favourable reviews in The Times, Telegraph, and Guardian, among others. A complete collection of his acclaimed Binscombe Tales series is forthcoming from The Spark Furnace in autumn 2011, in both print and ebook editions.

A former archaeologist and British civil servant, he lives in South East England.