Andy Lane


Andrew Lane, as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist best known for the Young Sherlock Holmes series of Young Adult novels.
He has written novels in the Virgin New Adventures range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
His Young Adult books are generally published under the name Andrew Lane, while media spin offs are Andy Lane.

Career

During 2009, Macmillan Books announced that Lane would be writing a series of books focusing on the early life of Sherlock Holmes. The series was developed in conjunction with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lane had already shown an extensive knowledge of the Holmes character and continuity in his Virgin Books novel All-Consuming Fire in which he created The Library of St. John the Beheaded as a meeting place for the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who.
The first book in the 'Young Sherlock Holmes' series – Death Cloud – was published in the United Kingdom in June 2010, with the second – Red Leech – published in the United Kingdom in November of that year. The third book – Black Ice – was published in June 2011 in the UK while the fourth book – Fire Storm – was published originally in hardback in October 2011 with a paperback publication in March 2012. The fifth book, Snake Bite was published in hardback in October 2012 and the sixth book, Knife Edge was published in September 2013. Death Cloud was short-listed for both the 2010 North East Book Award. and the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award. Black Ice won the 2012 Centurion Book Award.
Early in 2012, Macmillan Children's Books announced that they would be publishing a new series by Lane, beginning in 2013. The Lost World books will follow disabled 15-year-old Calum Challenger, who is coordinating a search from his London bedroom to find creatures considered so rare that many do not believe they exist. Calum's intention is to use the creatures' DNA to help protect the species, but also to search for a cure for his own paralysis. His team comprises a computer hacker, a free runner, an ex-marine and a pathological liar.

Personal life

Lane studied physics at the University of Warwick, where he was a contemporary and friend of writers Justin Richards and Craig Hinton.
He worked for the Ministry of Defence at Farnborough during which time he lived in Ash in Surrey for 11 years; since 2012 he has lived with his wife and son in Poole in Dorset, England. He is represented by Robert Kirby at United Agents.

Novels

Agent Without Licence

  • Agent Without Licence
  • Last Safe Moment
  • Last Boy Standing
  • ''Last Day on Earth''

    The Six Directions Sequence

  • Netherspace
  • Originators
  • Revelations written by Nigel Foster alone

    Crusoe

  • Dawn of Spies
  • Day of Ice
  • ''Night of Terror''

    Lost Worlds

  • Lost Worlds
  • ''Shadow Creatures''

    Young Sherlock Holmes

  • Death Cloud
  • Red Leech
  • Black Ice
  • Fire Storm
  • Snake Bite
  • Knife Edge
  • Stone Cold
  • ''Night Break''

    Virgin Books Doctor Who New Adventures

  • Lucifer Rising
  • All-Consuming Fire
  • ''Original Sin''

    Virgin Books Doctor Who Missing Adventures

  • ''The Empire of Glass''

    BBC Books Eighth Doctor Who Adventures

  • ''The Banquo Legacy''

    Torchwood

  • ''Slow Decay''

    Other television-related novels and novelisations

  • Bugs : A Sporting Chance
  • ''Randall and Hopkirk: Ghost in the Machine''

    Film- and television-related non-fiction

  • The Babylon File
  • The Bond Files: The Unofficial Guide to Ian Fleming's James Bond
  • The Babylon File: Volume 2
  • Randall and Hopkirk – The Files
  • The World of Austin Powers
  • Creating Creature Comforts
  • The World of Wallace and Gromit
  • The World of The Magic Roundabout
  • ''The Art of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit''

    Short stories

  • 'Living in the Past'
  • 'Crawling From the Wreckage'
  • 'The More Things Change'
  • 'Lovers, and Other Strangers'
  • 'Fallen Angel'
  • 'It's Only a Game'
  • 'Faceless in Ghazar'
  • 'The Old, Old Story'
  • 'Saving Face'
  • 'Where the Heart Is'
  • 'Four Angry Mutants'
  • 'Dependence Day'
  • 'No Experience Necessary'
  • 'As Near to Flame as Lust to Smoke'
  • 'The Gaze of the Falcon'
  • 'Blood on the Tracks'
  • 'Only Connect'
  • 'The Beauty of Our Weapons'
  • 'Who by Fire?'
  • 'Closing Time'
  • 'The Audience of the Dead'
  • 'Bedlam'
  • 'The Preservation of Death'
  • 'The Curious Case of the Compromised Card Files'
  • 'Blood Relations'
  • 'Shine A Light'
  • 'Flickering Flame'

    Television

[Space Island One]

  • 'Awakenings'
  • 'Mayfly'
  • 'Money Makes the World Go Around'

    Audio

Doctor Who

  • The Companion Chronicles: ‘Here There Be Monsters'
  • The Companion Chronicles: ‘The Mahogany Murderers'
  • A Thousand Tiny Wings
  • Paradise 5
  • Jago & Litefoot 1.4: 'The Similarity Engine'
  • Jago & Litefoot 2.4: 'The Ruthven Inheritance'
  • Jago & Litefoot 3.4: 'Chronoclasm'
  • Jago & Litefoot 8.2: 'The Backwards Men'
  • The Havoc of Empires

    Blake's Seven

  • Corners of the Mind

    Journalism

Lane has written articles, reviews and interviews for various magazines, including: DreamWatch, Radio Times, SFX, Starburst, Star Trek Magazine, Star Wars Magazine, Star Wars Fact Files and TV Guide.