Toby Litt

Toby Litt was born in Bedford and grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He has worked as a teacher, bookseller and subtitler.

His run on Neil Gaiman's Dead Boy Detectives (with Mark Buckingham and Shelly Bond) is the basis for the Netflix series. (Their new characters include Crystal Palace and Tragic Mick.) He also wrote the completion of Neil Gaiman's Free Country: A Tale of the Children's Crusade - part of the Sandman Universe.

A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s Creative Writing M.A. at the University of East Anglia, Toby is best-known for writing his books – from Adventures in Capitalism to (so far) Patience – in alphabetical order; he is currently working on Q, R and S.

He is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a regular on Radio 3’s The Verb. His story ‘John and John’ won the Manchester Fiction Prize.

Toby is the Head of Creative Writing at The University of Southampton. He's an environmental activist and editor of the Writers Rebel website.