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MARK ELLIS

Mark Ellis is a thriller writer from Swansea, and the creator of WWII detective Frank Merlin.

‘When I was about thirteen an English teacher encouraged me and I wrote stories up until I finished in university,’ Mark says.

‘Thereafter I had careers as a barrister, a merchant banker, a corporate executive and as an entrepreneur (co-founded a computer services company). I didn’t write while working as I was too busy but I always harboured the ambition of writing at some point. Eventually, when the computer

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