David Owen

David resents the fact that he was not raised by wolves and was therefore robbed of a good story to tell at parties. He turned to fiction to compensate for his unremarkable existence.

David’s debut YA novel, Panther, was published by Atom (Little, Brown) in May 2015, to rave reviews, was longlisted for the Carnegie medal and optioned for film by Element Pictures. This was followed by The Fallen Children (May 2017, Atom, Little, Brown), which, through a clever, contemporary YA reinterpretation of John Wyndham’s classic The Midwich Cookoos. His third YA novel, All The Lonely People was published in January 2019 by Atom (Little, Brown) and was followed by Grief Angels by Atom (Little, Brown) in March 2020.

In August 2022 David's first novel for 9-12-year-olds, Alex Neptune, Dragon Thief was published by Usborne. It was chosen as Waterstones Children's Book of the Month and became a bestseller. The book is the first in an exciting new series for younger readers.