Jim Carrington

Jim Carrington is an educationalist and writer of children's literature. James Alfred (Jim) Carrington was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England on 8 February 1977 and lives with his young family in south west London.

Educated in state schools in Norfolk, Carrington went on to read English at Queen Mary, University of London, and trained to teach at South Bank University. He then gained an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, where his work attracted the attention of Bloomsbury Publishing. He also teaches part-time in a state primary school in London. In 2011 Carrington appeared at Hayfever, the children's section of the Hay Festival.

Carrington's novels fall within the genre of young adult fiction, early readers and chapter books. His first three novels, Inside My Head (2010), In the Bag (2011) and Drive By (2012), feature young protagonists whose lives reflect experiences with which teenagers and young adults in a twenty-first-century United Kingdom will be very familiar: bullying, anti-social behaviour, mental health issues, identity and relationships. Carrington's fourth YA novel, Boy 23 (2015), took a different course, creating a wider dystopian socio-political world through which he examines the violent society in which a virulent epidemic of unknown origin emerges. This is seen from the perspective of two teenagers whose earlier lives have been radically different from each other. A science-fiction comic novel for 7-11 year old readers is forthcoming.

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