Philip Reeve

Infobox Writer
name = Philip Reeve


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birthdate = 1966
birthplace = Brighton, England
occupation = Novelist
genre = Science Fiction
nationality = English
period = 2001—
notableworks = Hungry City Chronicles
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Philip Reeve (born 1966 in Brighton) is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.

Biography

Reeve studied illustration, first at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT - now Anglia Ruskin University), where he contributed a comic strip to the Student Union magazine, and later Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton). Before becoming a professional illustrator he worked at a bookshop in Brighton for several years. During his student years and for a few years afterwards he wrote for and performed in comedy sketch shows with a variety of collaborators under various group names, among them The Charles Atlas Sisters. He provided cartoons for many books including those in the "Horrible Histories" and the "Murderous Maths" series and wrote the Buster Bayliss series of books for young readers, which currently includes "Night of the Living Veg", "The Big Freeze", "Day of the Hamster", and "Custardfinger". His first book for older readers was "Mortal Engines" which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award. "Mortal Engines" is the first book in the Mortal Engines Quartet series, which also includes Reeve's "Predator's Gold", "Infernal Devices" and "A Darkling Plain". The books are about the lives of two young adventurers, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, who live in a lawless post-apocalyptic world inhabited by moving cities. He is also the author of a Dead Famous book, "Horatio Nelson and His Victory". "Larklight" is due to become a film directed by Indian director Shekhar Kapur.

Bibliography

Buster Bayliss series

* "Night of the Living Veg" (2002)
* "The Big Freeze" (2002)
* "Day of the Hamster" (2002)
* "Custardfinger" (2003)

Mortal Engines Quartet

* "Mortal Engines" (2001)
* "Predator's Gold" (2003)
* "Infernal Devices" (2005)
* "A Darkling Plain" (2006)

Larklight series

* "Larklight" (2006)
* "Starcross" (2007)
* "Mothstorm" (forthcoming 2008)

Other novels

* "Here Lies Arthur" (2007)

Books as illustrator

* "Pantsacadabra!" (2006) (with Kjartan Poskitt)
* "Urgum the Axeman" (2006) (with Kjartan Poskitt)

External links

* [http://www.mortalengines.co.uk Mortal Engines Site] (requires Flash and Javascript)
* [http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/authors_p-reeve-biog.htm Philip Reeve biography]
* [http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/authors_p-reeve_interview-2005.htm Philip Reeve interview]