 Six of his novels have been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award for Best Novel, and he has won the British Fantasy Award twice, for his novella "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke"(2003), and for his short story "Whisper Lane"(2007).His novel "Jack of Ravens" was published in the UK on 20 July 2006.It is the first in a new sequence called "Kingdom of the Serpent".