Anthony McGowan
Photo by Robert Twigger Anthony McGowan is a former bouncer, doctor of Philosophy, and opening batsman of the Authors XI cricket team.
His first novel was rejected as insane by every publisher. His second, a well-reviewed thriller, was reprinted with the wrong barcode, so every copy had to be recalled. He eventually struck literary gold with a string of books about the Bare Bum Gang.
Henry Tumour won the Book Trust Prize in 2006, and in 2020 Lark won the Carnegie Medal for children’s/young adult literature.
McGowan is also the author of, among many other things, The Art of Failing, I Killed Father Christmas, a book about Albert Einstein’s pants, How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog, and Hamster Rampage (Oxford University Press, 2009).
His latest novel is Dogs of the Deadlands, out now.
