Philip Ardagh is a prolific writer who has been published in forty languages around the world. His titles include the bestselling EDDIE DICKENS trilogy, HIGH IN THE CLOUDS, co-written with Paul McCartney, and STINKING RICH and JUST PLAIN STINKY, the winner of the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He stands two metres tall with a most impressive beard, and lives with his wife and son in Kent, the Garden of England.