Welcome
...to the website of writer and professional sailboat racer Mark Chisnell.
Here you will find books, journalism and blogs, often with a sailing theme, but there’s travel writing and fiction - thrillers - here too...
The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 is into the home straight. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the TEN ZULU REPORT - my daily commentary on the race website.
And I've been working hard (far too hard) on a book about the race, called Spanish Castle to White Night. Click on the link to go to an information page on the Volvo Ocean Race website, taking orders for delivery on publication in October - go on, you know you want one...
If you do need any further convincing, then there's an online version of Chapter 1. And if you're wondering about the title, it's explained in this interview about the book and the TEN ZULU.
Meanwhile, the poor old blog has been a bit neglected of late, but it's always worth checking if something new has appeared, you never know.
There's been a lot of attention on the recent spate of pirate attacks - my 2004 novel The Wrecking Crew speculated on the results if ex-Special Forces crews got involved.
And it seems that there's plenty of interest in the use of Games Theory in the plot of The Dark Knight, not to mention the Big Brother £50k game of Prisoner's Dilemma. But it was done first in my thriller, The Defector (first published as The Delivery in 1996). The bad news is... it's out of print and hard to get hold of... But the good news is... I'm planning to have the audiobook on FREE download from this site, soon-ish. Really. In time for Christmas anyway.
