A retired hospital physician, Oliver Eade took to writing after hanging uphis stethoscope. He has published two collections of short stories for adults and one for children, five young readers’ novels, seven young adult novels, and three adult novels. Also a playwright, he has written and published twelve plays, four of which have been staged. One, The Other Cat, won the Segora International One-act Play Competition in 2018. His debut young readers’ novel, 'Moon Rabbit', was a winner of the Writers’ and Artists’ New Novel Competition plus longlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and its sequel, 'Monkey King’s Revenge', was a children’s genre finalist for the People’s Book Prize. His debut adult novel, A Single Petal, set in Tang Dynasty China, won the Local Legend 2012 Spiritual Writing Competition. 'The Kelpie’s Eyes', a young adult novel, inspired by Scottish mythology, won the 2018 Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Young Adult Novel Award. He has led writing workshops in the Scottish Borders, Perthshire, London, the USA, and Thailand, drama workshops for Scottish Higher-level students, and, until the COVID-19 pandemic, ran a writing class for home-schooled children with his Chinese wife, a retired teacher. During the pandemic, he has been helping fellow creative writers with editing, proofreading, file preparation, and cover design suggestions for free. He has published several other young adult novels including 'The Terminus' set in post-apocalyptic London, 'The Fire Hills', set in the Scottish Borders, past and present, where he lives, 'Number 24' in which human and dog roles are reversed, and a three-part novel about cross cultural love and beliefs, set in North America, 'Eyes of Fire'. His novel about sisterly love and rivalry, The Kelpie's Eyes, won the Georgina Hawtrey-Woore YA novel award. He has two unfinished adult novels awaiting further attention as well as several ideas for plays as yet unscripted.
