Life
Almond was born and raised in Felling and His second novel, A Kind of Heaven, appeared in 1987. He then wrote a series of stories which drew on his own childhood, and which would eventually be published as Counting Stars, published by Hodder in 2001.
From 2006-12 he was Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. In 2012 he became Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
He currently (2012) lives with his family, the sculptor/ceramicist Sara Jane Palmer, and their daughter Freya, in Northumberland, England, about 25 miles from Newcastle, "just beyond the Roman Wall, which for centuries marked the place where civilisation ended and the waste lands began."
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