Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of the novels: Grow Up , Fences , An Island of Fifty , The Kasahara School of Nihilism , Upward Coast and Sadie, Lolito , Everyone Gets Eaten , and Hurra . Writing for children, he has published the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Stories For Boys Who Dare to Be Different , Stories For Boys Who Dare to be Different 2 , Stories For Kids Who Dare to be Different , The Impossible Boy , and The Greatest Inventor . His first non-fiction book for adults, Things They Don't Want You To Know , was published by Quercus in September 2020. He contributed the story Kimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornaments to Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry , accompanying the release of 2016 album Blonde.
