Robin Jarvis is a British Young-Adult fiction and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for Young Adults have featured a sinister "world-switching" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book, Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear., dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast, epic medieval adventure and science-fiction dramatising the "nefarious intrigue" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I.. Jarvis' books for younger readers have featured anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals ? especially mice - as featured in the Deptford Mice series. A number of his works are based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, Felixstowe, 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. 

May 8th, 1963 in Liverpool (Age 61)