The Writers of Wales Database

GRANT, DAVID

Website: www.davidgrantwriter.co.uk

Born in London in 1965, David Grant moved to mid Wales in 2007. After university he worked in retail, admin, and enjoyed a brief period in a psychiatric hospital laundry, before finally training as an English teacher in 1996. He taught English in secondary schools for twelve years. Following three years of part-time teaching and part-time writing, David now writes full time. He is the author of a novel, three plays, a number of short stories for developing readers, and several secondary English teaching resources.
 

Selected Publications:
Free! (Heinemann, 2009)
Eg and Me (Heinemann 2011)
Fast (Heinemann, 2011)
Angels (Heinemann, 2012)
 

Eg and Me (Heinemann, 2011)

Written for Heinemann’s Heroes series, Eg and Me is the story of a boy imprisoned in his own home – until he escapes through a secret tunnel to a world beyond everything he knows. Here he meets Eg and the strange tribal world of a secondary school whose headteachers have disappeared, where order is about to break down and chaos threatens.

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