Profile Chris d’Lacey writes books for children of all ages, but is best known for his series The Last Dragon Chronicles, which have sold nearly four million copies worldwide. He likes dragons. He was born in Malta (not Hollywood, as Wikipedia likes to suggest) in 1954, but has absolutely no memory of the island and has never been back. Most of his life has been lived in Leicester. His early ambition was to be a songwriter, and he did not begin writing fiction until he was in his early thirties. He kicked off with a gentle Christmassy story that grew, alarmingly, into a 250,000 word adult saga about polar bears. This has yet to come out of his ‘bottom drawer’. Chris progressed to writing bizarre short stories and had a smattering of efforts placed in a variety of well-regarded small press magazines. He had no real plans to try children’s fiction until a friend suggested he enter a competition to write a story for nine-year-olds. He didn
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