Antony Lishak

After more than fifteen years as a primary school teacher in Haringey and Barnet, Antony finally swapped the company of a room full of children for his PC and a vat full of coffee. Ironically he now spends practically as many days in schools as he would as a teacher and manages to visit over one hundred and fifty a year. He finds it immensely rewarding to draw parallels between what children do in class and what he does now as a professional writer.

He is the author of both picture books and junior novels and has written for both trade and educational lists. Recently he has written titles for both Pearson Education and Nelson Thornes.

Antony grew up in North London wanting to play for Arsenal, become a solo cellist and to write books. He has got two to go! He was brought up on a strict diet of the Marx Brothers and consequently thinks that life without laughter is hardly worth living. He is married with three children Emily, Sam and Jessica.