Francis Gilbert

Francis Gilbert - Author and teacher. Francis Gilbert was born in 1968 and grew up in Cambridge, London and Northumberland. He trained as a teacher at Cambridge University, then gained a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. Since then he has worked both as a writer and a teacher in London.

I'm a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here was published by Short Books in March 2004, and by November 2004 it had sold 20,000 copies in hardback. It was serialised as Radio 4 Book Of The Week, read by jack Davenport.

In Teacher on the Run Gilbert is back, and he's glad to be back. After three years of teaching at Truss, an inner-city sink school, Francis Gilbert has been offered a job in the English department at his old school, a nice suburban comprehensive. Like a prisoner out of Colditz, he feels like he's just landed a job in toytown, but how long can Gilbert's dreamland last? Teacher on the Run was published by Short Books in September 2005.

For his next book Yob Nation Francis Gilbert takes the reader on a descriptive tour of the yobbish behaviour endemic in contemporary British life. Piatkus published Yob Nation in March 2006.