Shortlisted for Bisto Book of the Year Award 2009 and Carnegie Medal 2009.

Praise for Airman: 'Swashbuckling high adventure ... His strongest work yet' -- Guardian 'Better fun than this will be hard to come by' -- The Times 'A classic swashbuckling adventure' -- Irish Independent Review Praise for other books by Eoin Colfer: 'Wickedly brilliant' -- Independent (on Artemis Fowl) 'As ever, Colfer's story rattles along at a tremendous pace with a cast of eccentric and explosive characters' -- Guardian (on The Supernaturalist) 'Unputdownable' -- Irish Times (on Half Moon Investigations)

EOIN (pronounced 'Owen', by the way) COLFER was born and raised in Wexford, Ireland. He began writing plays at an early age, forcing his unfortunate classmates to dress up as marauding Vikings when they would have preferred to be outdoors doing some marauding of their own. As an adult Eoin continued to write and he is now the international bestselling author of the incredible Artemis Fowl series. He has also written the brilliant Half Moon Investigations, several Legend Of ... stories, The Supernaturalist and The Wish List. Airman is his first historical-fiction novel, in which his hero Conor takes to the skies. Eoin lives in Ireland with his wife, two sons and an overactive imagination.