Tim was a silly man who thought that it was yummy to swallow clouds of dirty smoke - until a chimney starts to grow on his head. To begin with Tim could hide it by wearing a hat - but it kept growing. It is only when he goes to hospital to have it removed that he learns the error of his ways.
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
