The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers Brandon Robshaw 9781912618347

Adam Gowers has problems. He is desperately in love with a girl who doesn't fancy him in the slightest; he's gone and got himself booked in for a fight with the hardest kid in the school; he's worried about failing all his GCSEs; his parents can barely stand the sight of each other. And then one day he is granted an infinite number of wishes by a genie who conveniently pops out of a lamp. Infinite! An infinite number of wishes! Effectively he has become a god. Except that he doesn't really have the skill-set to go with the god-like powers...

The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers is as funny as The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; as full of ideas as The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; and as sweet and easy to read as Nick Hornby's Slam.

These days, all YA novels are 'edgy'. Either they're bleak slabs of social realism or dystopian visions of the future. The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers is that rare thing: a teenage novel that makes you laugh rather than wince.

Brandon Robshaw is the author of 21 children's novels and over 60 educational books. His most recent children's novel, The Big Wish, was published by Chicken House in 2015. It was shortlisted for the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award 2016

Brandon is also a freelance journalist and used to be a regular book reviewer for the Independent on Sunday. He lectures in Creative Writing, Children's Literature, and Philosophy for the Open University, and Writing for Children for Westminster University; he has a degree in English Literature and an MA in Philosophy, and is currently studying for a PhD in Philosophy with the Open University. He enjoys running; plays the ukulele a little bit and the piano an even littler bit. He blogs about the state of the English language from a liberal pedant's perspective

Brandon may also be familiar as the dad in the BBC television programme Back in Time for Dinner, a 6-part series about the history of food in Britain from the 1950s to the present-day. The first series ran from 17th March to 21 April 2015 on BBC2. The follow-up series, Back in Time for Christmas, went out in December 2015 and 2016. The latest series, Further Back in Time, is broadcast weekly on BBC2 from 24 January 2017.