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Liam Brown (born 1985, Birmingham, England) is an English writer. His debut novel, Real Monsters, was published in 2015 by Legend Press.

Early life and education
Brown grew up in Birmingham. After leaving school, he spent ‘five years working a series of increasingly dead-end jobs’, before attending the University of Greenwich. In 2010 he received the de Rohan Scholarship, enabling him to study for an MA in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University.

Writing
In 2013, Brown’s novel Fade To White was shortlisted for the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary. Brown’s debut novel, Real Monsters, was published in 2015 by Legend Press. A short, sharp satire on the war on terror, author Ben Myers described Real Monsters as ‘a memorable and moving portrait of the futility of 21st century conflict’.

Works
Fiction Real Monsters (Legend Press, 2015)