Debut novel makes Amazon's top 10

WARRINGTON author Mark Gartside is celebrating after his debut novel was listed in Amazon’s Best Debut Novels of 2012.
His book “What will survive” is based in his home town, featuring loal pubs and landed Mark a publishing deal with international publishers Macmillan just two years after penning his first novel. His second novel is due to be published in the New Year.
Mark, (pictured right) a married father of two who grew up in Lymm, is a senior executive with an international technology company, who writes in his spare time, has previously written three novels, two for children and one, Whatever Else Is True, for adults.
His Amazon hit is a dual narrative, one set in the 1980s and the other set in 2009-2010. Much of it takes place in Warrington.
Mark, who was a member of the Warrington Warriors Swimming Club and then went on to earn a blue for Oxford as captain of their Rugby League team, grew up in Warrington in the 80’s and 90’s and now shares his time in England and the US.
Set in Warrington it is the story of Graham and Michael, a father and son growing up together, told over a dual narrative over two decades.
Graham, stuck in the past and unable to react as the world changes around him, is trying to stop his son make the same mistakes he did, but as Michael becomes an adult Graham is forced to come to terms with the realities of the new world, his responsibilities as a father and his own past.
It is a marvellously funny, deeply moving look at class and parenthood in Britain from the eighties to the present day.