Mark Speed has been writing novels since he was fifteen. His comedy writing has appeared in newspapers as diverse as the "London Evening Standard" and "The Sun", and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. He performed his solo comedy, "The End of the World Show", at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011 and 2012. He is currently working on the five-volume Doctor How sci-fi parody. Amongst other postgraduate and professional qualifications, he has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from City University, London. In 1995 a chiropractor told him he'd never run again. Sensibly he chose to give up chiroprac...