James Ward

James Ward is a former criminal lawyer and published mainstream author, having written for children, teenagers and adults. He has also scripted comedy for TV and radio, both in the UK and mainland Europe. An after-dinner speaker and award-winning member of The Magic Circle, James has performed stand-up comedy across Yorkshire and at the Edinburgh Fringe.

He lives in a quiet village in North Yorkshire, where he writes, sleeps and occasionally looks out of the window to see if it's still raining.

Unusually for an author, he has no cats, dogs or small children, though he does have a wife who keeps him on the straight and narrow. (And a secret supply of biscuits she doesn't know about.) (Or didn't until that last sentence.)