He lives in Greenwich in southeast London. After college, he moved to London and worked in the television and advertising industries as a model-maker. His favourite subjects at school were Art and English and he went on to study Graphic Design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). Jarvis was born in Liverpool, the youngest of four children, and grew up in Warrington, attending Penketh High School. The Deptford Mice was adapted and dramatised by Tiny Dog Productions, and staged in January 2010 and April 2011. Jarvis has said that he is not a writer of horror fiction, however his work has also been compared to that of '… Stephen King, but for Young Adults.' His work has been described as 'genre Busting' and 'original, spooky, unusual, psychological supernatural horror fantasy with a very modern twist'. His first novel – The Dark Portal, featuring the popular Deptford Mice – was the runner up for the Smarties book prize in 1989. A number of his works are based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, Felixstowe, or in Whitby, the setting for The Whitby Witches trilogy and his latest series: The Witching Legacy.

Jarvis' books for younger readers have featured anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice - as featured in the Deptford Mice series.

(The Wyrd Museum series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast (The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure (The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the 'nefarious intrigue' within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. His books for young adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers (shape shifters) pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister 'world-switching' dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear.

Robin Jarvis (born ) is a British Young-Adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. JSTOR ( December 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources.

The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis