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Nick Gifford

  Nick Gifford is an English author and editor. He writes for children, but before, he only wrote for adults. When he writes for adults, he has an anonymous name. He uses Keith Brooks, but when he writes for children he uses his normal name Nick Gifford. He still uses both names and he has said that sometimes he doesn’t remember which his real name is. When Nick Gifford started to write, he was 17 years old. At that time, he played lead guitar in a rock band which was high on enthusiasm, but low on quality. But when he was younger, he also had other hobbies, he liked to draw, take photographs and spent much of his time at the local sea-wall. In this age, he was soon leaving home for university. He read a lot of books in this part of his life. Most of them were horrors, and that shows in his own books. When he read these books, he started to wonder what would happen if the author didn’t write it like that and never wrote that, or what if, what if… At the time he was at university, he met his current wife Alison. Alison recommended Nick to take one year off, when he was finished at university. They where very poor, so they needed the money Nick could get if he wrote a novel. In this year, he wrote two novels; //Adrenotropic Man// and //Keepers of the Peace.// He was very happy when this year was over, so now he started to write serious. He had a break on eight years.

Now he lives with his wife Alison and their 4 children in Wivenhoe in England. He writes and works part-time for the University of Essex.

In Nick Gifford’s books, he uses many street names, ordinary names and other names that he is familiar with. Like in the book I’m reading, //Piggies//, there are many names that he grew up with. Like there was this wood he called // Weeley Wood //. He says the wood is much bigger in the book than in the real world. He also says he has taken many street names which were familiar to him, but he has moved them, so they aren’t the same in the book and in real life. Books known by **Nick Gifford**: // Piggies  // // Flesh & Blood  // // Incubus // // Erased  // Books known by **Keith Brooks**: // Parallax View   // //Genetopia// // Lord of Stone Head Shots Keepers of the Peace Expatria // // Expatria Incorporated  //

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