Brian was born in East London. His parents were Irish and when he was growing up he spent every Summer holidays in Ireland. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the Irish countryside forms a strong backdrop to one of his early books, Family Secrets, the story of a girl from London who discovers a family she never knew she had in the West of Ireland. Like most of his stories, it’s about relationships, conflict and identity.

He learned story-telling from his mother. “She was the kind of person who told stories all the time without even realising it,” he says, “and I used to follow her around the house listening to her tales of life back in Ireland when she was growing up.” He made up his mind at an early age that he wanted to be an author and he spends most of every day either writing or thinking about writing.

His latest novel, Jacob’s Ladder is unlike anything he has written before. It’s a dark fantasy about a boy who wakes up one day to find himself lying on the ground in the middle of an enormous field. He has no idea how he came to be there and, apart from his name, he can remember nothing about his life before that moment. It’s the story of a nightmare that will not go away, a choice between a past he cannot remember and a future he cannot predict.

Brian says of Jacob’s Ladder, “I have always known there is a world that lies just beyond the borders of this one, but one day I woke up with the feeling that I wanted to explore that other place, to find the stories that are waiting in the darkness.’

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