Alex Woolf

Alex Woolf is a prolific, award-winning author of books for adults and children. In his non-fiction he has written on subjects as diverse as sharks, robots, asteroids, flying reptiles and chocolate. His novels span a range of genres, including crime, mystery, science fiction, historical fiction, steampunk and horror. In 2024, Alex received a Readers Favorite Award for his YA time-slip novel, The Year I Lived Twice. He is a regular author for Fiction Express, online publishers of interactive stories for schools. Fiction Express is read by 1.2 million pupils in over 8,500 schools around the world. Two of his stories have won reader awards. In 2021, he won the prestigious ASE award for his non-fiction book Think Like a Scientist. His horror novel, Soul Shadows, was shortlisted for the Falkirk Red Book Award. Bestselling crime author Peter James described his novel Aldo Moon as “a real delight, witty, ghostly and at times deliciously ghastly”.