Best-selling children’s author and lifelong fan of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. His various book series include Z. Rex, Thieves Like Us, Doctor Who and Astrosaurs, with collective sales of over three million copies. In other careers he has worked as…

Started writing when he was ten years old, but it was a long time before he got paid for doing it. After university he sang in a pop group (The Higsons) and then became a painter and decorator. He started…