Brandon Robshaw is the author of 21 children's novels and over 60 educational books. His most recent children's novel, The Big Wish, was published by Chicken House in 2015. It was shortlisted for the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award 2016
Brandon is also a freelance journalist and used to be a regular book reviewer for the Independent on Sunday. He lectures in Creative Writing, Children's Literature, and Philosophy for the Open University, and Writing for Children for Westminster University; he has a degree in English Literature and an MA in Philosophy, and is currently studying for a PhD in Philosophy with the Open University. He enjoys running; plays the ukulele a little bit and the piano an even littler bit. He blogs about the state of the English language from a liberal pedant's perspective
Brandon may also be familiar as the dad in the BBC television programme Back in Time for Dinner, a 6-part series about the history of food in Britain from the 1950s to the present-day. The first series ran from 17th March to 21 April 2015 on BBC2. The follow-up series, Back in Time for Christmas, went out in December 2015 and 2016. The latest series, Further Back in Time, is broadcast weekly on BBC2 from 24 January 2017.