Mark Carew was born in Wales and brought up near Sudbury, Suffolk. He studied Biochemistry at King’s College, London, and received a PhD in Cell Physiology from Cambridge in 1995. ...view moreMark Carew was born in Wales and brought up near Sudbury, Suffolk. He studied Biochemistry at King’s College, London, and received a PhD in Cell Physiology from Cambridge in 1995. After post docs in Cambridge and North Carolina, he worked as a medical writer before joining Kingston University where he is an Associate Professor. His stories have appeared in print and online in literary magazines. The Book of Alexander is his first novel.view less