Daniel Whelan was born in Cheshire, but grew up in North Wales. He moved to London in 2000 to study for a degree in Acting. His adaptation of Richard Adams’s Watership Down premiered at Riverside Studios and was acclaimed by Mr Adams as one of the best he’d read. His next play, A Harlot’s Progress, inspired by the etchings of Hogarth, was well received by Time Out. Alas, Mr Hogarth was too dead to give his opinion.

The Box of Demons is Daniel’s debut novel and was winner of the Write Now! Prize. He is Patron of Reading at North Harringay Primary School.