David Solomons is a screenwriter and children’s novelist. His first book, My Brother is a Superhero, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Industry Awards Children’s Book of the Year in 2016, and he has gone on to write four further instalments in the series. He is also the author of two original Doctor Who novels, and as a screenwriter he has worked on several films, including an adaptation of Edith Nesbit’s Five Children and It, starring Kenneth Branagh and Eddie Izzard. He is originally from Glasgow, but now lives in Dorset with his wife Natasha, also a novelist, and their two children.