Ivo Stourton

Ivo James Benedict Stourton (born 1982) is the son of journalist and broadcaster Edward Stourton. He was educated at Eton College. Stourton first came into the public eye at the age of 17 when he wrote and starred in Kassandra, an award-winning Edinburgh Festival production about the Vietnam war. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he achieved a Double 1st in English.

In June 2006 he was signed to a two book deal by Random House. His first book, The Night Climbers (Doubleday 2007) a novel about a secret society in Cambridge and a group of friends who get involved in art fraud, was published on 4 June 2007. The Night Climbers was published in the United States by Simon Spotlight Entertainment on 7 September 2007. (See The Night Climbers of Cambridge)

Stourton began training to be a solicitor with the corporate law firm, Slaughter and May in September 2007.

His second novel, The Book Lover's Tale, was published in June 2011.

External links

• BookVideos.tv video interview with the author about The Night Climbers
• Transworld article
• Observer Article
• Independent article
• RBooks article
• Love Reading article
• Cambridge Evening News Article
• Times article