Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and studied in Birmingham and London. He had a varied working life, with jobs in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the author of Being, Black Rabbit Summer,__Killing God, iBoy and Naked for Puffin. He now lives in North Yorkshire.The Bunker Diary won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2014.