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British writer

For the Scottish cricketer, see Graham Gardner (cricketer).

Graham Gardner is the Librarian at Abingdon School (near Oxford, UK) and author of the novel Inventing Elliot.

He was born and brought up in the county of Worcestershire, England, and is the second eldest of ten children.

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From 2009 to 2014 he was in charge of library services at St Marylebone School in central London, which featured in the London Evening Standards " Get London Reading Campaign"^[1] and for which he co-wrote a history of the school.

Inventing Elliot

His début novelInventing Elliot, about bullying and self-invention, was published in the UK by Orion Children's Books in 2003. In 2004, Inventing Elliot was published in the US by Dial, an imprint of Penguin Books, and has since been translated into over 10 languages, including German, French, Greek, Polish, Spanish, Albanian and Korean.

The book has been shortlisted for many prizes, including the Angus