Piers Torday began his career in theatre and moved to television as a producer and writer.
His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards.
His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize.
The third book in the trilogy, The Wild Beyond, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim.
His next book for children, There May Be a Castle, was published in 2016.
The son of the late Paul Torday (author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) Piers Torday recently completed his father’s final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl.