Jasper Kent biography

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Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire in 1968. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and went to study Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specialising in Physics.

Jasper has spent almost twenty years working as a software consultant both in the UK and Europe, whilst working on both fiction and music. He has co written several musicals, including The Promised Land, written and performed to mark the 3000th anniversary of the foundation of Jerusalem and Remember! Remember!, the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.

He currently lives in Brighton, with seven rats called Millie, Martha, Rose, Manjula, Lurleen, Maybe and Bertie, and a person called Helen.

Visit his website at: www.jasperkent.com for more information.

Jasper Kent books

  • Twelve
  • Sifr
  • Yours Etc., Mr Sunday

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Jasper Kent revamps website in readiness for publication of Thirteen Years Later
Jasper Kent has revamped his website - http://www.jasperkent.com/ - including a spiffy new flash animation, in advance of Bantam Press's UK publication of Thirteen Years Later, the sequel to his highly successful historical vampire debut Twelve. The book appears on March 18 as a trade paperback. A [...]

US rights to Jasper Kent's vampire novels purchased by Pyr
Helen Edwards, Rights Director at Transworld UK, has sold US rights for the first two historical vampire novels by UK novelist Jasper Kent. World rights in the novels, which open with Jasper’s debut Twelve (the second-highest-selling trade paperback debut novel right across UK publishing in [...]

Jasper Kent interview (July 2009)
Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire in 1968. Twelve, a horror / thriller / fantasy set in Russia amongst Napoleon's invasion of 1812, was published in 2008 to great acclaim. Jasper kindly spoke to Fantasy Book Review in July of 2009. Fantasy Book Review: Twelve was set in Russia during Napoleon [...]

Jasper Kent to write third historical vampire novel
Simon Taylor of Transworld Publishers in London has concluded a World Rights deal with John Jarrold for a third historical vampire novel by UK author Jasper Kent.  This follows on the successful publication of Kent's debut, Twelve, earlier this year. Read our full review of Jasper Kent's Twelve [...]

Fantasy Book Review: Twelve by Jasper Kent
The voordalak - a creature of legend; tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov - a child of more enlightened times - it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy - the Gra [...]

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