Alan James BrownAlan was born near London, but has spent all of his adult life in the North of England. He loves the open and wild countryside and his hobbies are walking and tennis. He has two grown up children. He is very active in community publishing and has hadmany poems and stories broadcast on radio, performed on tape and published in local magazines. Alan was awarded a New Beginnings Award by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts in 1994 to concentrate on his writing. He is author of a number of short stories published in anthologies for schools by Scholastic, OUP and Orion. Read More Read Less