Ben Hatch was born in London and grew up there, and in Manchester and Buckinghamshire, where he lived in a Windmill. This meant that at school he was called 'Windy Miller' for years, though he's not been scared by this experience at all. He now lives in Brighton with his tiny wife Dinah, and two children, in a normal house. He likes cheese and is balding, although he disguises this fact by spiking his hair to a great height to distract people he wishes to impress. ROAD TO ROUEN is his latest book. Before that, he wrote ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET, which became a Number One bestseller and is currently being made into a movie by Island Pictures. He is the tallest Hatch who ever lived (5ft 9) and is son of Sir David Hatch, the famous radio performer and producer whose shadow Ben doesn't at all feel under. He also maintains that he knows the cure for the common cold (tweet him at @BenHatch to find this out) and that one of his relatives was John Couch-Adams who discovered the planet Neptune. Apparently his aunty told him.