Young Adult Fiction Author
BIOGRAPHY
Hello and welcome to my site!
If you are here, then hopefully you have been enjoying one of my books and want to discover more... The Sleep is my debut novel, and I am currently finishing a new quadrilogy.
I have been writing in one way or another my whole life. Before I started publishing novels, I was hiding out in dusty college libraries writing papers - first at St. Andrews, Scotland, and then during my DPhil at Oxford. I specialised in Classics; ancient Greek dreams, a world full of strange stories and characters. After that, I worked for the Government... which was certainly an experience!
Lately, when I am not glued to the laptop in my garden cave, you will find me wandering the countryside with Hastings my dog. There is no better place than the great outdoors to think up new ways for characters to suffer horrible fates… maybe I should stay inside more.
Yours,
Benjamin Hemingway
THE SLEEP
Awake. Alone. Trapped on an island cursed by a secret.
Arriving on Dubcrag Isle was supposed to be a fresh start for sixteen-year-old Flynn. A chance to escape the bad influences of the city; begin again with his estranged family. Keeping a promise to behave so that one day, he might be able to return home. Trouble is, Flynn never knew that The Sleep was about to descend.
On a night that’s been brewing for a hundred years, Flynn must uncover the secret of the island
before the entire population is consumed, never to awaken again.
Attacked by nightmares. Stalked by The Light. Betrayed by those he should trust.
This is going to be a long night…
