Ian Marchant

Ian is a young British writer whose first novel IN SOUTHERN WATERS was published by  Gollancz (world rights) July ’99. 

His second novel was THE BATTLE FOR DOLE ACRE, UK and Comm rights inc. Canada, Weidenfeld & Nicolson June 2001.  Translation rights, Marsh Agency.  US: Author.

Ian also writes non-fiction.

PARALLEL LINES:  JOURNEYS ON THE RAILWAY OF DREAMS - Non fiction. This is a new departure and a natural progression for Ian. His fiction teems with character, incident and comic detail, but now he is turning his characteristic eye for observation, humour and surprise to one of the great shared experiences of the British nation.  Parallel Lines will tell the story of what Ian calls the two railways of Britain - the real railway and the railway of our dreams, the one we hate and the one we love, from the grandeur of the Victorian heyday, through the romance of Brief Encounter to the modern reality of commuter hell and signals passed at danger.

Bloomsbury 2003, UK & Commonwealth rights.  Translation rights – Marsh Agency.  US: Author.

Ian is also the author of MEN AND MODELS (New Holland)

THE LONGEST CRAWL is Ian’s latest project, the non-fiction account of his journey along the longest pub crawl route in Britain - from the Scilly Isles to the Hebrides.  Turning his attention from trains to pubs, Ian will anatomise and expose another British obsession, with the fantastic flair, imagination, wit and analytical prowess that are his hallmarks.  Ian is in negotiations with a major TV production company to make a series following his progress.