Mark Clapham

Mark Clapham (born 29 January 1976) started out writing Doctor Who fan fiction but graduated to professional writing with Beige Planet Mars, which he co-wrote with long term mentor Lance Parkin. Clapham later also co-wrote Twilight of the Gods with Jon de Burgh Miller and — for the BBC — The Taking of Planet 5 with Simon Bucher-Jones. Later on he wrote his first solo novel, Hope, for the BBC.

	29 January 1976
	Writer
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	1998-2000, 2002, 2009-10, 2014, 2018, 2020
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In 2009, he returned to the world of Benny when he edited Secret Histories. He also contributed a short story to the Iris Wildthyme collection, The Panda Book of Horror.

Personal life

He is married to Mags L. Halliday.

Bibliography

Novels

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

• Beige Planet Mars (with Lance Parkin)
• Twilight of the Gods (with Jon de Burgh Miller)

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• The Taking of Planet 5 (with Simon Bucher-Jones)
• Hope

Faction Paradox

• The Book of the War (with many other authors, edited by Lawrence Miles)

Short stories

Short Trips

• A Town Called Eternity (with Lance Parkin; in Short Trips and Side Steps)

Bernice Summerfield

• Linking material (in Secret Histories)
• In the Ledgers of Madness (in Present Danger)
• The Seventh Fanfic (In In Time)

Obverse Books Iris Wildthyme

• Channel 666 (in The Panda Book of Horror)
• Lilac Mars (with Lance Parkin; in Iris Wildthyme of Mars)

Audio

Bernice Summerfield

• Venus Mantrap (with Lance Parkin)
• Tap (in The Christmas Collection)

As editor

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield

• Secret Histories

 External links

• Throwback Interview: Mark Clapham (2002)
• BBC.co.uk website interview with Mark Clapham, 01 January 2004
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Mark Clapham (archived)