Brian Conaghan was born in 1971 and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He gained a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow in 2007. His first novel, The Boy Who Made it Rain, was published to critical acclaim in 2011. His second, When Mr Dog Bites, was published in January by Bloomsbury. The author, Charlie Higson, called it “the F word – funny, foul-mouthed, fantastic!” His new novel will be published by Bloomsbury next year. He will be speaking at the Children’s Books Ireland conference, The F Word: Failure, on Saturday and Sunday, May 24th and 25th, at the Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin, See childrensbooksireland.ie for booking....
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