Nigel Hinton biography

Nigel Hinton Biography

Nigel Hinton was born in London in 1941 in the middle of an air-raid. Not much interested in school, Hinton was more interested in reading, going to the cinema and playing with his friends on the street or on the many bomb sites that existed after the Second World War.

After leaving school he worked in an advertising agency for two years, and then decided that he wanted to study English at university, so he left his job to study for the exams he needed to get into university. During this time he worked as a road-sweeper for six months and then another six months as a swimming pool lifeguard.

Eventually, he got a place in a teacher training college where he did a degree in English. Although he had no interest in being a teacher part of the training was practicing teaching in schools - which he found he loved. So, after qualifying, he taught for ten years in a school in the south of England. While teaching he wrote his first book and, soon after, started teaching part time so as to have more time to write. Six years later he left teaching to concentrate on writing. He is married and lives in East Sussex.

His works include: Collision Course (1976), Getting Free (1978), Beaver Towers (1980), Beaver Towers: the Witch's Revenge (1981), The Heart of the Valley (1986), The Finders (1993), Ship of Ghosts (1999), Partners in Crime (2003), 2 Die 4 (2009), On the Edge (2014).

His novel The Finders won the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award, and Collision Course won the Dutch Silver Pen Award. Out of the Darkness won the Lancashire Book Award and the Stockport Book Award. His novel Time Bomb, set in 1949 in the area he grew up, won the 2006 Rotherham Book Award. In 2014, his short novel Partners in Crime won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award. He has adapted some of his novels for the screen, notably Buddy which was made into a BBC television series, and Buddy's Song which was made into a feature film.

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