Nick Lake

Nick Lake is a British author born in Hexham in 1979, who spent part of his childhood in Luxembourg before returning to England for university. He writes award‑winning young adult and middle‑grade fiction — his novel In Darkness won the Michael L. Printz Award, and other works such as Hostage Three and Nowhere on Earth have also earned critical acclaim and award nominations. When he isn’t writing, Lake works as a fiction‑publishing director at HarperCollins Children’s Books.