Background

Magnus Mills was born in 1954 in Birmingham, United Kingdom and brought up in Bristol.

Education

Magnus Mills graduated with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic (nowadays University of Wolverhampton). He also studied at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion.

Career

Magnus Mills published his first work The Restraint of Beasts in 1998. Mills followed The Restraint of Beasts with All Quiet on the Orient Express, a novel about a young man who finds himself drawn to rural life after extending a camping venture in England’s Lake District. Upon publication in 1999, All Quiet on the Orient Express received recognition as an accomplished comic tale. Mills’s third novel, Three to See the King was published in 2001. From 2003 to 2017 Magnus wrote six novels, among which are Explorers of the New Century, A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In, The Forensic Records Society and others.

Magnus has also written three books of short stories Once in a Blue Moon and Only When the Sun Shines Brightly for Acorn Books.

Achievements

• Magnus Mills received nominations for both the Whitbread and Booker prizes for his first novel, The Restraint of Beasts. His recent novel, The Field of the Cloth of Gold was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015. Magnus also won the McKitterick Prize in 1999.

Works

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  • The Restraint of Beasts

    (When sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, tw...)

    1998
  • The Field of the Cloth of Gold

    (The Field of the Cloth of Gold sits firmly outside of tim...)

    2015
  • Explorers of the New Century

    (Explorers of the New Century offers a blend of white-knuc...)

    2005
  • The Scheme for Full Employment 2002
  • Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked in 2011
  • The Forensic Records Society 2017
  • All Quiet On The Orient Express 1999
  • Screwtop Thompson 2010
  • The Maintenance of Headway 2009
  • Three to See the King 2001
  • Only When The Sun Shines Brightly 1999
  • Once in a Blue Moon 2003

Connections

Magnus Mills is married.