Michael Mann

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Michael’s first writing success was for a poem about potatoes - in a competition run by a Yorkshire school catering company. As a ‘reward’, he had to shake hands with a giant potato mascot in front of his entire school. It would be many years before he dared write again.

These days, Michael is a teacher by day, dad by night, and mostly writes when he should be sleeping. He owes the idea for his middle grade novel, Ghostcloud, to his coal-mining grandad and a lifelong love of cloudspotting. He’s half-Indian and passionate about diversity in children’s literature, and loves books that keeps kids turning the page.

He has a first-class degree in anthropology, lives in East London with his (very patient) partner and their (less patient) toddler, a
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Average rating: 4.02 · 323 ratings · 101 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Ghostcloud (Ghostcloud, #1)

3.99 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions
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Nightspark (Ghostcloud, #2)

4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings5 editions
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