Robin Jarvis
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Robin Jarvis (born May 8, 1963) is a British children's novelist, who wrote fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals - especially mice - and Tudor times. A lot of his works were based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, or in Whitby.
His first novel - The Dark Portal, featuring the popular Deptford Mice - was the runner up for the Smarties book prize in 1989.
Biography
Jarvis was born in Liverpool, the youngest of four children, and grew up in Warrington, attending Penketh High School. His favourite subjects at school were Art and English and he went on to study Graphic Design at Newcastle Polytechnic. After college, he moved to London and worked in the television and advertising industries as a model-maker. He lives in Greenwich, South London.
Bibliography
- The Deptford Mice Trilogy
- The Whitby Witches Trilogy
- The Deptford Histories
- The Wyrd Museum
- The Hagwood Trilogy
- The Deptford Mouselets
- Fleabee's Fortune (2004)
- Whortle's Hope (due 2005)
- Other titles
External links
- Official site (http://www.robinjarvis.com/homepage.html)