'Full of believable characters and funny writing, this pacy science-fiction adventure ... will leave both boys and girls hoping for a sequel' - Junior Education 'Norriss has a wonderful light comic touch' -- Sunday Telegraph Praise for Aquila: 'A wonderful story ... believable characters, bags of humour and deft plotting with a very satisfying twist' -- Telegraph 'Brilliant and inspirational. The plot was light and perfect' -- Whitbread Award Judging Panel

Andrew Norriss was born in Scotland, went to university in Ireland and taught history in England for ten years before becoming a full-time writer. He has written and co-written many episodes of Bafta Award-winning comedy and children's drama for television, and has written six novels for children, including Aquila, which won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. He lives with his wife and two children in Hampshire.