most recently anthologised in The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime. His fiction has twice received Honorable Mentions in Ellen Datlow's Years Best Fantasy & Horror series, and in 2000 his story Gunned Down was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as one of only five stories selected nationwide for their New Writers' Week. His screen adaptation of his short story Shopping has been optioned by the London-based Creative Alliance Ltd, and shortlisted for the 2002 Jerwood First Film Shorts Prize. 'Esther Gordon Framlingham', originally published in Crimewave, and from his collection Milo & I, has been shortlisted for the 2003 CWA Short Fiction Dagger.

He has recently been commissioned to write a first feature screenplay based on his as yet unpublished novel, 'The Suicide Club'. Antony can be contacted directly at antperson@hotmail.com, or else through his agent Anne Dewe at Andrew Mann Ltd, London, or via our Discussion Board. 

'Antony Mann, a Dagger-winning Aussie writer who lives in the UK, has a growing reputation as a purveyor of weird crime, but Milo and I is the weirdest crime story I've read in a very long time. It's also one of the most striking, ambitious and successful….what he ends up with is a highly enjoyable murder mystery, which leaves you re-examining your thoughts about how crime fiction works. Milo and I is one of the highlights of my reading year so far.'  - Mat Coward (Mystery Scene 73, 2001)

 'There is a good spread of international writers here and my guess is that there are more than a few future 'names' featured. Crimewave 4 is worth getting for Antony Mann's Shopping alone.' -  Peter Walker (Crime Time 24 - The Journal of Crime Fiction, 2001)