Piers Torday is an award-winning and best-selling children’s writer. Books include The Last Wild series (Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), There May Be a Castle, The Lost Magician series, (Teach Primary Book Award) and the Midnight Treasure series. His latest book is Letters to a Dog.

Plays include The Box of Delights (Wilton’s/RSC), Christmas Carol and The Wind in the Wilton’s (Wilton’s Music Hall.) His book There May Be a Castle has been adapted for the stage by the Little Angel Theatre, and The Unicorn and National Theatre are adapting The Last Wild.
 
The son of Paul Torday (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), he completed his father’s final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl and co-founded the Paul Torday Memorial Prize for Debut Novelists over 60.
 
He has served as a judge for the Costa Book Awards, the British Book Awards, the Laureate for Irish Fiction Selection Panel, and the Sustainable Book Award.
 
Piers is also Chair of the Society of Authors Sustainability Steering Committee, a trustee of The Unicorn Theatre, Patron of Shrewsbury Book Fest and an Artistic Associate at Wilton’s Music Hall.