Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including the Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden Bookworm. He is also the author of A Dance of Ghosts, his first adult novel, and Until the Darkness Comes. He lives in North Yorkshire with his wife, Susan.