Dr Adam Baron
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Associate Professor
About
Novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing.
Latest novel, Oscar's Lion, December 2024 (HarperCollins).
I have published ten novels. My first four were crime novels (Macmillan). My next was the literary novel, Blackheath (Myriad Editions, 2016). 'Fresh, honest, very funny'. Rachel Cusk.
I currently have a six-book contract with HarperCollins to write novels for younger readers.
Boy Underwater (2018) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and Branford Boarse awards. To date, it has won The Stockport Schools Book Prize, the Awesome Book Awards, and the Oxfordshire Schools Book prize. It was Waterstones Book of the Month and one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2018.
You Won't Believe This came out in July 2019.
This Wonderful Thing was published by HarperCollins in January 2021.
Oscar's Lion (2023) was one of The Guardian Books of the Year.
My novels have been widely translated, and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. I hold a PhD in Creative Writing from Brunel University.
Qualifications
- PhD Creative Writing
- I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
Domains
Publications
Videos of my work
Adam Baron Creative Practice
Dr Adam Baron talks about teaching informs his creative practice.