Conrad Mason was born in 1984 and grew up in Oxford. He studied Classics at Cambridge before moving to London where he got a job writing non-fiction books about everything from polar bears to post-war Britain. He now works as an editor of children's fiction as well as the author of The Girl in Wooden Armour, a gripping middle-grade fantasy novel, and The Tales of Fayt, a riproaring fantasy adventure series featuring piratical goblins, invisible warships and a mermaid in a wheelbarrow.