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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.