He started his writing career initially by writing screenplays, but after difficulty entering the business he turned his strongest screenplay into the successful A Thousand Suns novel.[4] He has since written a number of successful novels, including October Skies. He has also written several screenplays, and is currently writing a highly successful young adult fiction series,[5] which, according to his TimeRiders website, "Allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with when designing games."[6]
He currently lives in Norwich with his son, Jacob and his partner, Debbie, and two rats.
Alex Scarrow wrote the TimeRiders series which consists of 9 books in total. The series is about an agency which consists of three teenagers who have cheated death, and who travel in time to fix history broken by time travel.[7]
Ellie Quin is a new series about a young girl who thought she was ordinary. It turns out she couldn't have been more wrong. She's the most valuable, the most dangerous, the most sought-after human in the universe... and there are people already zeroing in on her.[8]
Ellie Quin Book 1: The Legend of Ellie Quin – 23 December 2013 (ISBN978-0-9575-1600-7)
Ellie Quin Book 2: The World According to Ellie Quin – 23 December 2013 (ISBN978-0-9575-1601-4)