Giles Paley-Phillips, is the Award Winning Author of The Fearsome Beastie, winner of The People's Book Prize 2012, Heart of Hawick Children's Book Award 2013, Bizziebaby Gold Award, The US Forward National Literary Award and Shortlisted for The Rotherham Children's Book Award 2012 and soon to be completed CG Short Animation starring Alison Steadman and Brian Blessed and produced by Slurpy Studios and UCA. Tamara Small and the Monsters' Ball is shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2013. He has written several picture books, including Things You Never Knew About Dinosaurs, Princess Stay Awake and a collection of nonsense poetry.

Giles lives with his wife and two sons in East Sussex.