Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects. Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous. Philip is also an award-winning author of many fiction titles, including the Mortal Engines Quartet, the Buster Bayliss series, No Such Thing as Dragons and Here Lies Arthur, which won the Carnegie Medal in 2008. Philip lives in Devon with his wife and son and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading.