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Grant was born in England in an ancient time before mobile phones, colour television and England’s only World Cup win (just).

He has spent much of the past 20 years writing and reporting on TV about primates (the human kind) running, jumping and kicking balls while working as a sports journalist.

He lives on a sunny red dot called Singapore with his wife and two daughters, and divides his time between teaching journalists how to write proper for an international news agency – and penning children’s books.

Grant is working on Space Buttons, an adventure about a brother and sister travelling the universe and taking on smelly aliens in a bid to save our environment, as well as some rather silly verses.

He is also putting together Romy Alexander’s third adventure in the Monkey Magic series, which he plans to complete in 2011.

Grant should never be given a cup and saucer or asked to perform surgery because he wobbles like a jelly. That is because of a condition called Essential Tremor that started when he was a child and gives him a good excuse to spill drinks over his friends.

Grant has spoken to many schools about the book. To see him talk about Monkey Magic on television, click on the following: