Kevin Brooks

Kevin M. Brooks (born 30 March 1959) is an English writer. He is best known for young adult novels. His The Bunker Diary, published by Penguin Books in 2013, won the annual Carnegie Medal as the best new book for children or young adults published in the UK. It was a controversial selection by the British librarians.

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

By a wide margin his work most widely held in WorldCat libraries is the 2009 novel Killing God (titled Dawn in North America). The title character Dawn "contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance". "When Dawn's dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to everything. But that wasn't the end of it."

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

Novels

Martyn Pig (Chicken House, 2002)