Anne Charnock’s writing career began in journalism; her reports appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Geographical, among others. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied environmental sciences, and at The Manchester School of Art, where she gained a Masters in Fine Art. As a foreign correspondent she travelled widely in the Middle East, Africa and India, and spent a year overlanding through Egypt, Sudan and Kenya. Anne’s debut novel, A Calculated Life, was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award 2013 and for The 2013 Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award. Her second novel, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind was included in The Guardian “Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015.” Her third novel, Dreams Before the Start of Time, won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association 2017 Award for Best Novel. She now lives on the Isle of Bute in Scotland.
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"Alston Moor has a quiet brilliance and wise humanity that kept me spellbound. Charnock has a remarkable gift for making her characters living, breathing people; we feel them as ourselves... and the writing is just gorgeous."—Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens and Julia
"Alston Moor is fiction of the highest order. Charnock writes with elegance and wisdom and a seriousness of purpose, and showing at all times respect and compassion for her characters caught up in the turbulence of history."—Martin MacInnes, author of In Ascension longlisted for the Booker Prize, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Kairos Prize
"Its astonishingly well-written… further proves Anne Charnock is one the worlds best contemporary explorers of what it means to be human"—Tom Atherton
"Beautifully written, capacious and deeply moving, it is a delight."—James Bradley, author of Clade, Ghost Species and Landfall
"Alston Moor is a deeply skilful piece of writing, weaving the contemporary and the historical."—Aliya Whitely, author of The Loosening Skin shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award