Matt Beighton is a children’s author from England. He was born and raised in the heady days of the 1980s and hasn’t really left them behind. He grew up in a small village on the outskirts of Leicester and is an avid supporter of Leicester City, which isn’t something that he feels the need to hide nowadays.

His Monstacademy series of funny chapter-book mysteries are popular with fans of The Worst Witch, Mallory Towers and The Spy Who Love School Dinners. They are available in both standard and dyslexia adapted editions. The Shadowland Chronicles will delight fans of classic epic-fantasy, and who love fantastic world-building and enormous battles.