Mark Blacklock is a novelist, journalist, investigator and academic. His novels I’m Jack and Hinton were published by Granta; Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. As a journalist he has written for the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph, the Fence, Granta, Unherd and the LRB. His investigations include the Guardian’s coverage of Nigel Farage’s schoolboy racism, described by Farage’s biographer as the greatest scandal of his political career, and a multi-part exposé of Queen Ethelburga’s independent school, which contributed to the Secretary of State for Education banning its owner from running schools. He is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College and co-editor of Offal, a journal of literary and artistic oddities.
The Guardian · The Times · The Telegraph · Granta · The Fence · Unherd · LRB
Investigations
Nigel Farage
34 contemporaries of Nigel Farage at Dulwich College came forward to describe Farage’s racist and anti-semitic behaviour when he was at school. Three-month investigation with Henry Dyer and Dan Boffey for The Guardian.
Recent Work
“Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue”, The Guardian, 2026
“How the World Declared War on America”, The New Statesman, 2026
“The Beadlean Library”, The Fence, 2025