Ortho's Brood

Mutant Point Horror

by Roger Davenport

222 pages

First published September 15, 2000

About the author

Roger Davenport started his working life as an actor after training at LAMDA, and became an established writer only after further careers in advertising and theatre management. His first radio play, 'Eddie and Miss Simpson', was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 as a Saturday Night Theatre presentation in 1984. Thereafter, he has written other dramas for radio, and has dramatised stories by Saki and P.G. Wodehouse for radio series. As a TV scriptwriter, he has created scripts for such British series as 'All Creatures Great and Small', 'Bergerac', 'The Bill' and 'Growing Pains'. He has also written various television documentaries, including 'The Double Life of Saki' (BBC), in which he played the title role.

His first book for young adults, 'Onlooker', was published by the Bodley Head in 1989, and the YA author Anthony Masters wrote of it in the Birmingham Post, “Every so often, and it is not that often, I come across a new writer who moves me so much that I feel as if I have entirely entered his or her world. This is the case with the haunting new talent of Roger Davenport, whose ONLOOKER (Bodley Head) is riveting reading … A wonderfully evocative book.”

Roger's father was the critic and writer John Davenport, and he is married to the actress Joanna McCallum.