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The Bunker Diary is Kevin Brooks's pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true - and how will you survive?...
Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award.
Kevin Brooks (writer)
English writer (born )
Kevin M. Brooks (born 30 March ) is an English writer. He is best known for young adult novels. His The Bunker Diary, published by Penguin Books in , 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.[1][2][3][4]
Early life, family and education
Brooks was born in Pinhoe on the outskirts of Exeter in southwest England, the second of three brothers.[5][6]
At age 11, he won a scholarship to Exeter School,[7] where he felt estranged from the other pupils from better-off families and took solace in fiction.[6] He subsequently studied psychology and philosophy at Aston University in Birmingham.[8] His father died when he was [6]
Career
Brooks's debut novelMartyn Pig was published in by Chicken House, where it was edite