Ben Brooks is the author of seventeen books for children and adults, including the million-copy bestselling series Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages and received a British National Book Award. He received a Somerset Maugham Award and Jerwood Fiction Prize for Lolito, and the Celsius 232 and Premio Torres del Agua for The Impossible Boy. His novels have received praise from Nick Cave, Noel Fielding, and Dennis Cooper. Having written for Series 4 and 5 of the award-winning German comedy series, Jerks, he is now developing original TV projects in the UK and Germany. His novel, The Greatest Possible Good, was published by Scribner (UK) and Avid Reader (US) in July 2025, for which Ben was shortlisted for the Sunday Times' Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.
His next novel, Is Now a Bad Time? is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in 2027.
