Robin Jarvis (born May 8, 1963) is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals - especially mice - and Tudor times. A lot of his works are based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, 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.
Biography
Jarvis was born in Liverpool, the youngest of four children, and grew up in Warrington, attending Penketh High School. His favourite subjects at school were Art and English and he went on to study Graphic Design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). After college, he moved to London and worked in the television and advertising industries as a model-maker. He lives in Greenwich, South London.
Bibliography
- The Deptford Mice Trilogy
- The Deptford Histories
- The Deptford Mouselets
- The Whitby Witches Trilogy
- The Whitby Witches
- A Warlock in Whitby
- The Whitby Child
- Tales from the Wyrd Museum
- Hagwood
- Thorn Ogres of Hagwood
- The Dark Waters of Hagwood
- Intrigues of the Reflected Realm
