Carl Ashmore | |
Birth Name: | Carl Stuart Ashmore |
Birth Date: | 17 August 1968 |
Birth Place: | Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK |
Occupation: | Writer |
Period: | 2006–present |
Genre: | Children's novels |
Notableworks: | The Time Hunters series |
Carl Stuart Ashmore (born 17 August 1968) is an English children's author.[1] He is best known for his book The Time Hunters.[2]
Ashmore was born in the town of Crewe, Cheshire in 1968. He is a graduate of Bournemouth University.
Before working as an author he worked for Granada Television and a lecturer in film and media at Burslem College.
Ashmore wrote his first book The Time Hunters in 2006 while spending a years sabbatical on the south coast of France.[3] His other books include The Time Hunters and the Box of Eternity and The Time Hunters and the Spear of Fate (Books 2 and 3 in The Time Hunters series), Bernard and the Bibble and The Night They Nicked Saint Nick.
From 2013 his best-known book The Time Hunters will be published in Brazil by Brazilian publishing house Bertrand Brasil.[4] [5]