Books by Keren David

Keren David got her first job in journalism at 18, as a messenger girl, the following year she turned down a place at university to be apprenticed as a reporter. She's worked for most of the national newspapers, in Scotland and London and by the age of 17 was a news editor for The Independent. She later moved to be a commissioning editor on the Independent?s op-ed page. After a couple years in Amsterdam, Keren returned to London in 2007 and took a course of evening classes in Writing for Children at City University. Her first book, the award-winning When I Was Joe started out as a plot-planning exercise on the course. Keren now teaches the City University course. Salvage is her fifth book for teenagers.