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Will Hill biography

Will Hill is a British author of young adult fiction. Before writing full time, he worked in publishing; he also worked as a bartender, a bookseller and a door-to-door charity worker. His writing is associated with young adult, contemporary and horror fiction.

Hill wrote the Department 19 sequence, which includes Department 19, The Rising, Battle Lines, Zero Hour and Darkest Night. Department 19 was published by Razorbill in paperback on 2 February 2012, with 544 pages and an age range of 14 and up. The story follows Jamie Carpenter after his mother is kidnapped and he becomes involved with Department 19, a secret government agency that fights vampires.

Hill’s novel After the Fire is a 464-page young adult novel for readers aged 14 to 18. It is about survival after life in a cult and was inspired by survivors of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas. The novel centres on Moonbeam, a teenager raised inside an isolated religious community who recounts her life after an inferno destroys that world.

After the Fire was published by Usborne Publishing and won The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize in 2018. The same novel was also an Edgar Award finalist.