Thomas Bloor is the author of five children's novels, including The Memory Prisoner, which won the 1999 Fidler Award, and The House of the Eyes, winner of the 2003 Stockton Children's Book of the Year Award. Before becoming an author, Thomas Bloor worked as a school librarian, an art technician, a classroom assistant and artificial flower-maker. He lives in London with his wife, two daughters and two cats.