LARRY Hayes is easily distracted. So when he’s not writing books for children he can be found working as an investment fund manager, the trustee for a homeless charity and on Fridays he home-schools his two kids by letting them decide what to study. In the future he hopes to become a treasure hunter, private investigator, inventor of a yoghurt that makes you happy, Olympic croquet medallist and the person who solves the maths behind the human brain.
How to Survive Without Grown Ups was Larry’s debut book for children and was illustrated by Katie Abey and published by Simon & Schuster. The sequel How to Survive Time Travel followed and the final part of the trilogy How to Survive The Future was the winner of the 2024 Laugh Out Loud Awards.
Larry is also the author of several non-fiction books, including How to be a Kid Boss and new for 2025, How to Outsmart a Grown-up published by Walker Books.
Larry’s new series is a comedy horror, The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick was published by Bloomsbury and will be followed by The Fate of Finnegan Quick.
