ABOUT
THE STORY SO FAR...
Damian is attracted to epic tales. Tomorrow is a love story about immortality that spans two hundred and fifty years. The Colour Storm, set in art world of the renaissance, is about the search for a new colour and the deadly competition between the great painters of day. For younger readers, The History Keepers, “an intelligent, quick-witted” adventure series, is about a boy who discovers his parents are lost in history and must join a secret service to track them down.
LIGHTS
Damian loves nothing more to bring people and places vividly to life. “I need the reader to feel exactly how it was, how it sounded, felt, smelt.” Sixteenth-century Venice, revolutionary France, Ming-dynasty China, Rome in the first century, England in the age of enlightenment. Each story moves at a thrilling pace, packs hefty emotional punches, whilst being drenched in art, history and science.
Damian was born in London, growing up on Gloucester Road. As a boy, his non-stop trips to every nearby museum - The Natural History Museum, The Victoria and Albert, The Science Museum – shaped everything that was to come. From archaeology, to cosmology, to product design, to quantum mechanics, there is nothing that Damian isn’t fascinated by. He still lives in the centre of city, now with his husband and dogs.
Damian originally trained as an artist and scenic designer, before becoming an actor and then screenwriter. His first script, Seventh Heaven, was bought by legendary producer Graham Broadbent (Three Billboards). Amongst more than a dozen projects, he worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the screen adaption of The Phantom Of The Opera and with the Henson family on a live-action version of Puss In Boots. He began writing novels fourteen years ago. “To get to paint the full picture. Be editor, cameraman, lighting and costume designer.”
Since he was a boy, Damian has loved building things. He learnt carpentry, built buildings and has made numerous artworks and pieces of furniture over the years. In 2023 he launched a collection of pieces to accompany the release of The Colour Storm. From now, Damian plans to produce a new set inspired by each novel.
He’s passionate about travelling for research. “To travel is to live,” as a character says in Tomorrow. He has lived in Rome, Venice, explored China and even stayed on Mont St Michel in Normandy whilst working on The History Keepers.
Damian's been obsessed with learning and education all his life. He has visited over a hundred schools to give talks, and for decade was the patron of the charity, Kids In Museums.