Philip Reeve
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Philip Reeve at Lucca Comics & Games 2016
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| Born |
28 February 1966 Brighton, Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 2001–present |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable works | Mortal Engines Quartet |
| Notable awards |
Guardian Prize 2006 Carnegie Medal 2008 |
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Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. He currently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Sam.
Born on 28 February 1966 in Brighton, and now living in Dartmoor National Park (UK), Reeve studied illustration, first at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT – now Anglia Ruskin University), where he contributed a comic strip to the Student Union magazine, and later at Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton). Before becoming a professional illustrator he worked at a bookshop in Brighton for several years. During his student years and for a few years afterwards he wrote for and performed in comedy sketch shows with a variety of collaborators under various group names, among them The Charles Atlas Sisters.
With Brian Mitchell, Reeve is the author of a 1998 dystopian comic musical,The Ministry of Biscuits. 'Stop! Think before you eat that biscuit! Is it in any way fancy? If so, then you are a criminal! In Post-War London, The Ministry of Biscuits casts its sinister shadow over every tea-time and elevenses in the land. Established to 'control biscuits, and to control the idea of biscuits,' it prohibits decadent sweetmeats, such as the Gypsy Cream.'
The musical was performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was revived in 2005 at the Sallis Benney, Brighton, and is due to be revived again in November 2017.
Reeve provided cartoons for many books including those in the Horrible Histories and the Murderous Maths series and wrote the Buster Bayliss series series of books for young readers, which currently includes Night of the Living Veg, The Big Freeze, Day of the Hamster, and Custardfinger. He is also the author and illustrator of a Dead Famous book, Horatio Nelson and His Victory.
His first book for older readers was Mortal Engines which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 9–11 years and made the Whitbread Book Award shortlist. Mortal Engines is the first book in a series sometimes called the Mortal Engines Quartet (2001 to 2006), which also includes Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. The books feature two young adventurers, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, who live in a lawless post-apocalyptic world inhabited by moving cities. For the concluding volume, Reeve won the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
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