Nicholas Mark Harding (b: London

London

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 1964), is an author

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 and British

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 screenwriter

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 who has written for film, television, magazines, newspapers and computer games. He is also a published poet and short story writer. He is the author of the cult classic and critically acclaimed How to Start Your Own Secret Society. He has appeared on ITV’s This Morning, has been a contributor to TV documentaries on secret societies including one for Channel 4

Channel 4

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 and has made over fifty appearances for both local and national BBC

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 radio. He co-wrote The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow and Folie a Deux with director Sean Martin

Sean Martin

Sean Martin is an Anglo-Irish writer and film director. He has written popular books on the Knights Templar and the Cathars, and appeared on History Channel documentaries such as Decoding the Past: The Templar Code and in Channel 5's Secrets of the Cross: The Trial of the Knights Templar.Martin...

 and Reality Horror Night

Reality Horror Night

Reality Horror Night is a 2009 horror/comedy film created by Sean Pomper and directed by Douglas Elford Argent who wrote it with Nicholas Mark Harding. The film features mostly reality stars who portray themselves on a twisted new reality show. It was filmed in Glen Cove, New York at the Glen Cove...

 with Doug Elford Argent. In 2008 OMNI Communications / PAWS awarded him a bursary to develop a television series. He also has four film projects in development as well as several novels. He is active in the Mendip Caving scene and was a co-discoverer of the Lost Cave of Loxton made famous by Alexander Catcott

Alexander Catcott

The Reverend Alexander Catcott was an English geologist and theologian born in Bristol, who became the vicar of Temple Church, Bristol and the author of numerous works on science and theology....

 and Upper Canada Cave in Hutton near Weston super Mare. He is a member of the Axbridge Caving Group. He is an atheist, skeptic and a registered Bright

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. He was recently one of the interviewees on BBC Radio 4's Weston's New Pier presented by Chris Ledgard. His novel Sunsphere will be published 2010.

Books

• "Urban Legends" 2004 (ISBN 1-904048-35-8)
• "Secret Societies" 2005 (ISBN 1-904048-41-2)
• "How to Start Your Own Secret Society" 2006 Paperback (ISBN 1-904048-84-6) Hardback 2007 (ISBN 978-1-84243-211-2)

• "How To Be A Good Atheist" 2007 (ISBN 978-1-84243-237-2)

• "How To Be A Good Atheist" Audio Version 2009 (ISBN 978-1-906968-12-0)

Journalism

• "Here's the Whisper on Secret Societies" - The Daily Express December 2006

• "Secret Societies" ICE Magazine no: 48 2005

• "Tunnel Vision" ICE Magazine no: 53 2006

Filmography as screenwriter

• "Meeting a Bullet" (2004) A New York crime drama

• "25%" (2005) A Los Angeles crime drama

• "The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow" (2005), a psychological thriller set in London

• "Reality Horror Night" (2008) Comedy Horror set in a hotel.

• "Folie a Deux" (2009) A story about an online date with a secret.

• "Brazen Bull" (2009)

• "Grace and Danger" (2010) A WW2 drama - screenplay & story by Rhys Hayward, co-writer Nicholas Mark Harding

• "Flight 284" (2011)

• "Thorsen" (2011) WW2 Drama with Thomas Kretschmann

External links

Imdb Nicholas Mark Harding
www.bec-cave.org.uk
www.pocketessentials.com
www.Oldcastlebooks.com
www.realityhorrornight.com
www.mutusliber.com/forthcoming-titles/sunsphere-by-nick-harding/