Garry Kilworth


Garry Douglas Kilworth is a British science fiction, fantasy and historical novelist. Kilworth was raised partly in Aden, South Arabia, the son of an airman. Having an itinerant father he travelled widely, both in Britain and abroad, and attended over 20 different schools before the age of 15. He later went to military school and subsequently was himself in the Royal Air Force for 18 years. In 1962 he married Annette Bailey, the daughter of an R.A.F. Catalina aircraft pilot.
On demobilisation he joined Cable & Wireless, an international telecommunications company, leaving them to become a full-time writer in 1981. His science fiction and fantasy does not fit any set formula, being more interested in the enigmatic and strange, with roots in folk lore. He states that his one great passion is the short story, at which he is most adept. However, as an eclectic writer he has produced novels in several genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical, children's fiction, war and literary novels. He has also written several books of short stories and two volumes of poetry. Garry Kilworth is now in his seventies but continues to produce novels and short stories, and has recently brought out his autobiography under the title 'On My Way To Samarkand', detailing among other things his vast travelling experiences over the globe.
Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London. He has published one hundred thirty short stories and over seventy novels. His most recent books are Dragoons, a historical war novel set in South Africa, and Attica, a dark quest set in an attic the size of a continent which is currently under production with Johnny Depp's film company, Adfinitum Nihil. Recently a new collection of stories came out under the title 'The Fabulous Beast'.
Kilworth has twice been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction and won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for his short novel 'The Electric Kid'. Kilworth's novel Rogue Officer won the 2008 Charles Whiting Award for Historical War Literature. The Ragthorn, a novella co-authored with Robert Holdstock, won the World Fantasy Award in 1992.

Non-fiction

  1. On My Way To Samarkand – Memoirs of a Travelling Writer
  2. Rookie Biker in the Outback

    Poetry

  3. Poems, Peoms and Other Atrocities
  4. Alchemy in Reverse
  5. A Rural 1950's Boyhood
  6. ''Poems from my Youth

    Novels

Zulu War novels

  1. Scarlet Sash
  2. Dragoons

    Angel

  3. Angel
  4. Archangel

    Navigator Kings

  5. The Roof of Voyaging
  6. The Princely Flower
  7. Land-of-Mists

    Welkin Weasels

  8. Thunder Oak
  9. Castle Storm
  10. Windjammer Run
  11. Gaslight Geezers
  12. Vampire Voles
  13. Heastward Ho!

    Knights of Liöfwende

  14. Spiggot's Quest
  15. Mallmoc's Castle
  16. Boggart and Fen

    'Fancy Jack' Crossman