George Mann was born in Darlington and has written numerous books, short stories, novellas and original audio scripts. The Affinity Bridge, the first novel in his Newbury and Hobbes Victorian fantasy series, was published in 2008. Other titles in the series include The Osiris Ritual, The Immorality Engine, The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes, and the forthcoming The Revenant Express and The Albion Initiative.
His other novels include Ghosts of Manhattan, Ghosts of War, and Ghosts of Karnak, mystery novels about a vigilante set against the backdrop of a post-steampunk 1920s New York; Wychwood, the chilling first novel in a new thriller series; and an original Doctor Who novel, Paradox Lost, featuring the Eleventh Doctor alongside his companions, Amy and Rory.
He has edited a number of anthologies, including Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, Associates of Sherlock Holmes and Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, and has written two Sherlock Holmes novels for Titan Books, Sherlock Homes: The Will of the Dead and Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box.