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. 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" and for which he co-wrote a history of the school.