David Solomons
Winner of Waterstones Children’s Prize and author of acclaimed middle-grade children’s novel My Brother is a Superhero, the British Book Industry Awards Children’s Book of the Year.
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David Solomons is the author of eight acclaimed middle-grade children’s novels and several screenplays. His first novel for children, My Brother is a Superhero, won the Waterstones Children’s Prize 2016 and the British Book Industry Awards’s Children’s Book of the Year, and was Branford Boase shortlisted. David also won the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Awards (Lollies) with the second book in this series, My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord. There are three more in the series: My Evil Twin is a Supervillain (2017), My Arch-Enemy is a Brain in a Jar (2018), and My Cousin is a Time Traveller (2019). (‘There would’ve been more, but those titles are really hard to come up with!’ says David.)
David is the author of two original novels set in the world of Doctor Who. Writing The Secret in Vault 13 (2018) and The Maze of Doom (2020) fulfilled his childhood dream.
In addition to his acclaimed children’s fiction, he has been writing screenplays for many years. His first script, The Fabulous Bagel Boys, was shortlisted for a BAFTA New Writer Award. David served as screenwriter for the 2004 feature adaptation of Five Children and It, starring Kenneth Branagh. He co-wrote the Pinocchio miniseries, starring Bob Hoskins (2008), and The Great Ghost Rescue, starring Jason Isaacs (2011). Not Another Happy Ending, written by David, was the closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2013. He studied English Literature at Glasgow University.
A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is his sixth novel for children.
He was born in Glasgow and now lives in Dorset with his children.
David’s Genres
- Children’s Fiction
- Fantasy
Please note: all genuine emails from David Solomons will come from @thenovelry.com.
My Cousin is a Time Traveller
Luke is surprised to learn that his cousin is a time traveler. He’s even more surprised when she tells him that the machines are becoming intelligent and he must help her stop them taking over the world. It couldn’t come at a worse time. Zack has decided to give up his superpowers and live life as a normal teenage nerd. So Luke must swallow his irritation and rise to the challenge yet again...
My Brother is a Superhero
Luke is a comic-mad 11-year-old who shares a treehouse with his geeky older brother, Zack. Luke’s only mistake is to go for a wee right at the wrong time.
While he’s gone, an alien gives his undeserving, never-read-a-comic-in-his-life brother superpowers and then tells him to save the universe.
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord
Zack and Lara have superpowers. Luke has new school shoes and a burning sense of resentment. He KNOWS that aliens disguised as gym teachers are about to attack Earth, but will anyone listen? No. So, one dodgy pact with a self-styled supervillain later, and Luke is ready to save the world. He just needs to find his trainers…
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