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Ben Brooks


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Gloucestershire, The United Kingdom
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Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of the novels: Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, Upward Coast and Sadie, Lolito, Everyone Gets Eaten, and Hurra. Writing for children, he has published the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Stories For Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Stories For Boys Who Dare to be Different 2, Stories For Kids Who Dare to be Different, The Impossible Boy, and The Greatest Inventor. His first non-fiction book for adults, Things They Don't Want You To Know, was published by Quercus in September 2020.

He contributed the story Kimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornaments to Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry, accompanying the release of 2016 album Blonde.
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Average rating: 3.68 · 9,931 ratings · 1,134 reviews · 43 distinct worksSimilar authors
Grow Up

3.61 avg rating — 3,346 ratings — published 2011 — 28 editions
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Lolito

3.42 avg rating — 3,264 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions
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Stories Boys Who Dare To Be...

4.19 avg rating — 1,451 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions
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Hurra

3.45 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 2016
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Stories for Kids Who Dare t...

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The Impossible Boy

4.05 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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FENCES

4.18 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010
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An Island of Fifty

4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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“Sometimes I think of atoms as tiny people who are extremely scared and hold hands with each other a lot. I imagine that my body is made of tiny, scared people, and they pick up mugs and books, which are made of other tiny, scared people. And when you sex someone it's just lots of tiny, scared people holding hands.
I think about the tiny people that are me and I feel less alone.
I'm an army of tiny people, trying their best.”
Ben Brooks, Lolito

“I think the best way to escape your head isn’t to think about things that aren’t real, it’s to think about things that are and then imagine them happening to people who aren’t you.”
Ben Brooks, Lolito

“I think charity is like putting a plaster on a man with no skin.”
Ben Brooks, Grow Up

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