Jasper Kent (born 1968) is an English author and composer. As a composer his work is generally in the field of musical theatre and his novel series include the Danilov Quintet and the Charlie Woolf Mysteries.

Biography

Born in

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, England, Jasper was educated at

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and read

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(specializing in theoretical physics) at

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. After graduating he worked as a software developer and consultant focusing on

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such as

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and C# and

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. Notable clients have included

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, BP, Hughes Aircraft and the UNICC. Jasper also provides training courses for Learning tree international, Learning Tree International. Kent has worked for almost twenty years in musical theatre as a singer, instrumentalist, musical director and composer. He has performed backing vocals for various artistes including Hinge and Bracket, Stig Rossen and Russell Watson and in the role of musical director has conducted, amongst others, Lucy Montgomery (actor), Lucy Montgomery and Daniel Boys. His four complete musicals are ''Writer’s Cramp'' and ''Malvolio’s Revenge'' (both written with Robert Renton) and ''The Promised Land'' and ''Remember! Remember!'' (with Robert Piatt and Robert Starr). ''The Promised Land'' was commissioned for and performed as part of the Jerusalem 3000 celebrations in 1996. ''Remember! Remember!'', a musical dramatization of the events of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, has been produced as a studio CD recording and was premiered in Lewes, Sussex, England in October 2008. Jasper lives in the coastal Sussex town of Brighton.

Novels

Jasper is best known as the author of ''Twelve'', a supernatural historical thriller set during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. The website Fantasy Book Review has ranked ''Twelve'' in sixth place in its list of all-time greatest historical fantasy novels. It has been translated into French, Polish, Italian and Turkish. ''Twelve'' is the first novel in the Danilov Quintet, which spans Russian history from the French invasion of 1812 to the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution of 1917.http://www.jasperkent.com/#DanilovQuintet-Twelve Jasper Kent's official website The second instalment, ''Thirteen Years Later'', culminating in the Decembrist Uprising of 1825, was released in the UK in 2010, the third, ''The Third Section'', in 2011 and the fourth, ''The People's Will'', in 2013. The last book of the series, ''The Last Rite'', was published in 2014. ''Late Whitsun'' is the first Charlie Woolf Mystery, set in Brighton, England in 1938. It was published in 2016 and blends aspects of both murder mystery and espionage. Two further stories in the series have working titles of ''The Stalactite Man'' and ''To Muddy Death'' (a reference to the death of Ophelia in Hamlet). Additionally, Jasper has written two as yet unpublished novels, ''Yours Etc''., ''Mr Sunday'', a murder mystery set in Brighton, and ''Sifr'', a contemporary thriller encompassing cryptography and the discoveries of Roger Bacon.http://www.johnjarrold.co.uk/clients/kent-jasper/ John Jarrold Literary Agency's website

Published works

Books The Danilov Quintet * * * * * Charlie Woolf * Albums *(2005) Remember! Remember! 2 Bob Productions.

References

External links

Jasper Kent's website

Official website for ''Remember! Remember!''
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Story Behind People's Will by Jasper Kent - Online Essay

REVIEW : The People's Will
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kent, Jasper 1968 births People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge British historical novelists English crime fiction writers English horror writers Living people