Ross Montgomery

Ross Montgomery is a British children's author. He started writing stories as a teenager and kept going at university. After graduating he tried work as a pig farmer and a postman before becoming a primary school teacher, and he wrote his first novel, Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door, while teaching. Published by Faber in 2013, it was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Later novels include The Tornado Chasers, Perijee and Me, Max and the Millions and Christmas Dinner of Souls, and he has written picture books including The Building Boy and Space Tortoise. The Midnight Guardians, from Walker Books, was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award in 2021. He lives in Brixton, south London.

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