Barry Hutchison

Children’s author Barry Hutchison was born and raised in the Highlands of Scotland. Always keen to be a writer, his first success came with the sale of a screenplay, the dark comedy horror Curse of the Bog Women, when he was just 17, although the screenplay was never filmed. After a number of writing jobs for magazines, he started writing children’s books in 2007.

Hutchison won a six-book contract for his Invisible Friends series. The first novel in the series, Mr Mumbles, was won a Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Book Award in 2010. Hutchison has also written novels based on the Cartoon Network TV series Ben 10.

He now lives in Fort William with his partner Fiona and their two children.