Bill Bowler grew up in a place called Crystal Palace in South London, fascinated by history, theatre and literature. He read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, then spent two years in Paris studying mime and improving his French.

Returning to London, he trained as an English teacher and launched an international career in English language teaching and ELT authoring. He’s lived across Europe (UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Spain) and in Canada, and has written drama sketches and plays and run English theatre groups in different countries. He speaks fluent French and Spanish, and some Italian and Hungarian. Egypt remains his favourite country to visit because of its warm people and its Pharaonic heritage. He occasionally returns to England to meet up with family members who still live there.

Bill began writing seriously when he was at university, focusing at first on poetry, short stories, and plays, and later on educational texts. He worked as a teacher trainer for several years and has visited more than sixty different countries to share his ideas with teachers of English around the world. Since 2000, he’s authored and edited over 100 graded readers for CEFR A1–B2 levels, notable for their lively stories and careful language grading.

His adaptations of A Christmas Carol (Dominoes – OUP) and Animal Farm (StandFor – FTD Educação) have won Language Learner Literature Awards presented by the Extensive Reading Foundation. His stories are designed to catch readers’ attention, and to be fun to read. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking vegetarian meals, walking daily, reading, binge-watching streamed TV series, and writing poetry and flash fiction.

Explore Bill Bowler’s world of graded readers and storytelling at billbowlerbooks.com.