Will Gatti was born in London and worked in publishing before turning to teaching. His novels for children and teenagers have been published in Denmark, Holland, Italy and Germany.

Will is now head of English at a secondary school in Surrey.
Every summer, with his wife and two children, he goes to the family home in the west of Ireland to fish and to write.

Under the pen name Daniel Finn, Macmillan have recently published his astonishing new young adult thriller, TWO GOOD THIEVES, described as 'Oliver Twist meets Slumdog Millionaire'.