Adam Baron is the author of six published novels. His four crime novels were published by Macmillan and widely translated. His fifth novel, Blackheath, was published by Myriad Editions in February 2016, and is a darkly comic account of modern parenting.

He currently has a three book contract with HarperCollins to publish novels for younger readers. His first, Boy Underwater, was published in June 2018. It was Waterstones book of the month as well as the Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday book of the month. ‘Pack tissues aplenty. Involving and wryly funny, full of tenderness, eccentricity and intriguing meditations on the function of art’. The Guardian.