Meet the author

Maz Evans.

Writer · United Kingdom

Maz Evans: creator of the riotous Who Let the Gods Out? quartet, where squabbling Greek gods loose in modern Britain wrap a genuinely moving young-carer story in laugh-out-loud chaos.

Maz Evans is a British children's author whose bestselling debut Who Let the Gods Out? launched a wildly funny modern-mythology quartet. Across Who Let the Gods Out?, Simply the Quest, Beyond the Odyssey and Against All Gods, lonely Elliot accidentally frees an ancient death daemon and must save the world with the help of a squabbling gaggle of past-their-prime Greek gods, from a wine-loving Zeus to a fashion-obsessed Hermes. The books are stuffed with terrible puns, chariot chases and immortal in-fighting, but their true heart is Elliot's love for his seriously ill mum, a young carer's story handled with real tenderness beneath the comedy. Fast, warm and very funny, Evans is a brilliant gateway into Greek myth for 9-12s who like their adventures big-hearted.