AUTHOR

AUTHOR

Andy Mulligan was brought up in South London. He worked as a theatre director for ten years before travels in Asia prompted him to retrain as a teacher. He has taught English and drama in India, Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines and the UK. He now lives in Manila. Ribblestrop was Andy Mulligan's first book, and was published in the UK in April 2009. It was the runner up for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and the Guardian called it 'dangerous, high octane fun of the highest order'. Return To Ribblestrop came out in February of this year, and won the coveted Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011.

Trash is a very different animal. Hailed by the Times as 'outstanding ...exceptionally satisfying', Trash is first and foremost a thriller. It tells the story of three dumpsite boys and an astonishing discovery they make amongst the city's refuse. Smart enough to know they have something truly special - truly life-changing - they try to stay one step ahead of a vengeful police force out to silence them. The novel shifts rapidly from the squalid slums of a third-world city, to its prisons and graveyards. David Fickling published Trash in the Autumn of 2010 in the UK and the USA and the book is now set to be published in twenty languages across the globe. Film rights were snapped up soon after UK publication and schools around the world are pushing it onto the syllabus.

Andy is currently working again at his favourite school in the world, The British School: Manila. He is completing the final volume of the Ribblestrop trilogy, and working on something very secret for David Fickling.