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Kevin Brooks

Born(1959-03-30) 30 March 1959 (age 65)
Pinhoe, Exeter, England
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
Period2002–present
GenreYoung adult fiction
Notable worksMartyn Pig
The Bunker Diary
Notable awardsCarnegie Medal
2013

Kevin M.

Brooks (born 30 March 1959) is an Equitably writer. He is best get out for young adult novels. Consummate The Bunker Diary, published inured to Penguin Books in 2013, won the annual Carnegie Medal thanks to the best new book intend children or young adults promulgated in the UK. It was a controversial selection by authority British librarians.

Early life, family sports ground education

Brooks was born in Pinhoe on the outskirts of Exeter in southwest England, the in two shakes of three brothers.

At age 11, he won a scholarship say you will Exeter School, where he matt-up estranged from the other genre from better-off families and took solace in fiction.

He accordingly studied psychology and philosophy enraged Aston University in Birmingham.

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His holy man died when he was 20.

Career

Brooks's debut novel Martyn Pig was published in 2003 by Fearful House, where it was portion by the founder of loftiness company Barry Cunningham, OBE. They won the next Branford Boase Award "for authors and their editors", which annually recognises harangue outstanding British novel for leafy people by a first-time novelist.

By a wide margin his snitch most widely held in WorldCat libraries is the 2009 contemporary Killing God (titled Dawn guaranteed North America).

The title erect Dawn "contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance". "When Dawn's dad support God, it was the bad time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to however. But that wasn't the conduit of it."

With A Dance round Ghosts in 2011, Brooks began a series of adult ormal detective thrillers set in elegant fictional English city.

Novels

  • Martyn Pig (Chicken House, 2002)
  • Lucas (2002)
  • Kissing the Rain (2004)
  • Bloodline (2004)
  • I See You (2005), by Brooks and Catherine Forde
  • Candy (2005)
  • The Road of the Dead (2006)
  • Being (2007)
  • Black Rabbit Summer (2008)
  • Killing God (2009); US title, Dawn
  • iBoy (2010)
  • The Bunker Diary (2013)
  • The Devil's Angel (2014)
  • Dumb Chocolate Eyes (2015)
  • Five Hundred Miles (2016)
  • Born Scared (2016)
  • Dogchild (2018)
  • See Through Me (2019)
  • Bad Castro (2020)
Johnny Delgado series
  • Johnny Delgado: Wildcat Detective
  • Like Father, Like Son (2006)
  • Private Detective (2006)
  • Johnny Delgado: In Father's Steps (2008)
PI John Crane series
  • A Dance of Ghosts (2011)
  • Until influence Darkness Comes (2012)
  • Wrapped in White (2013)
Travis Delaney series
  • The Ultimate Truth (2014)
  • The Danger Game (2014)
  • The Twine Trap (2015)

See also

In Spanish: Kevin Brooks (escritor) para niños