Shane Hegarty is the bestselling author of Boot, a story about a toy robot with only two-and-half-memories. Boot was recently Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Citywide Read. He also wrote the Darkmouth series about a boy who has to fight monsters even though he’d much rather run away. His latest book is Boot: The Creaky Creatures, illustrated by Ben Mantle. Eoin Colfer called the Boot series ‘Fast, funny and furious’.