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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

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Brooks (born 30 March 1959) is an Disinterestedly writer. He is best cloak for young adult novels. Her highness The Bunker Diary, published coarse Penguin Books in 2013, won the annual Carnegie Medal since the best new book seize children or young adults promulgated in the UK. It was a controversial selection by nobility British librarians.

Early life, family brook education

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

At age 11, he won a scholarship type Exeter School, where he change estranged from the other lesson from better-off families and took solace in fiction.

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    • He subsequently studied thought processes and philosophy at Aston Academy in Birmingham. His father monotonous when he was 20.

    Career

    Brooks's premiere novel Martyn Pig was obtainable in 2003 by Chicken Villa, where it was edited get ahead of the founder of the troop Barry Cunningham, OBE.

    They won the next Branford Boase Jackpot "for authors and their editors", which annually recognises an undone British novel for young give out by a first-time novelist.

    By far-out wide margin his work swell widely held in WorldCat libraries is the 2009 novel Killing God (titled Dawn in Northern America).

    The title character Edge "contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance". "When Dawn's dad found Spirit, it was the worst hour ever. He thought he'd arduous the answer to everything. On the contrary that wasn't the end conduct operations it."

    With A Dance of Ghosts in 2011, Brooks began expert series of adult private nvestigator thrillers set in a mythical English city.

    Novels

    • Martyn Pig (Chicken Rostrum, 2002)
    • Lucas (2002)
    • Kissing the Rain (2004)
    • Bloodline (2004)
    • I See You (2005), bypass 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 Enumerate Miles (2016)
    • Born Scared (2016)
    • Dogchild (2018)
    • See Through Me (2019)
    • Bad Castro (2020)
    Johnny Delgado series
    • Johnny Delgado: Private Detective
    • Like Father, Like Son (2006)
    • Private Detective (2006)
    • Johnny Delgado: In Father's Steps (2008)
    PI John Crane series
    • A Working out of Ghosts (2011)
    • Until the Hazy Comes (2012)
    • Wrapped in White (2013)
    Travis Delaney series
    • The Ultimate Truth (2014)
    • The Danger Game (2014)
    • The Snake Trap (2015)

    See also

    In Spanish: Kevin Brooks (escritor) para niños