![]() He also worked as a stringer for national newspapers. In the evenings he worked as a nightclub bouncer.īy the time he was in his mid-30s and writing his first novels, Gemmell was a journalist working for a chain of newspapers on the south coast of England, editing three of them. He found work as a labourer, then as a lorry-driver's mate. He was expelled from school in his teens, apparently for organising a gambling syndicate. He was working on the final book in his Troy series (fantasies of alternative history) when he died.ĭavid Gemmell was born in west London, and had a tough, troubled urban upbringing, reacting against the unwelcome presence in his life of a stepfather. He wrote one conventional thriller, under the pseudonym Ross Harding. Most of these form part of several series of linked titles, although there are a few, similar, standalone novels. ![]() ![]() Over the next two decades he wrote more than 30 long novels. ![]() ![]() With the mistaken diagnosis set aside, and the extraordinary success of this title (the book was later adapted as a graphic novel, and his publishers even renamed their fantasy imprint Legend), Gemmell settled down to producing novels on a regular basis. ![]()
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