Jonathan Stroud is the author of the world acclaimed BARTIMAEUS SERIES which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide with rights sold to 37 countries.
THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND, THE GOLEM'S EYE and PTOLEMY'S GATE,
the first three titles of the series published between 2003 and 2005, have been on the Bestseller lists in the UK, US, Japan and Germany.

The series has received the following awards :
The 2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
The 2007 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
The 2007 Children's Book Award of the Jury of Young Readers, Austria

Formerly a children's book editor, he has written three previous novels for young adults. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife, a children’s book designer and illustrator, and their two young children.

His new Bartimaeus title, THE RING OF SOLOMON, will be published by Random House UK and Germany and by Hyperion in the US in autumn 2010.