MARK GRIFFITHS
Mark Griffiths writes comedy and drama for radio, TV and stage. His first ever commission was for Radio 4’s Week Ending programme at the age of seventeen, closely followed by a stint writing material for Smith & Jones for BBC 1 aged eighteen. His writer/contributor credits include TV Go Home (E4 and tie-in book), Comedy Nation (BBC2), The News Huddlines (BBC Radio 2) and co-creating the sitcom The Basement (BBC Radio Wales). He has written several original plays, including Leona Cash (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 2008); The Impossibility Club and The Lullaby Witch (both for 24/7 Theatre Festival, Manchester).
His interests include dinosaurs, tea-drinking and staring up at the sky through the branches of a tree.
Space Lizards Stole My Brain! is his first novel for children and was bought by Simon & Schuster in a hotly contested auction.
LATEST BOOK: SPACE LIZARDS STOLE MY BRAIN!
Admiral Skink is an alien lizard warlord from the planet Swerdlix, and Lance Spratley is an eleven year old school boy on earth. Due to a bout of over enthusiastic war mongering, Skink’s ship is destroyed, and his mind, conveniently transferred to a memory wafer, is jettisoned through space until it falls to earth in a meteorite shower. Lance is watching the shower with his friend, Curly Wurly, when his body is taken over by the alien lizard, and Lance’s mind is transferred onto the memory stick.
Lots of destruction, sci fi nerdiness, and hilarious jokes ensue as the great big alien bully, trapped inside a geeky, downtrodden school boy, tries to get back home to Swerdlix.
