John Harding (1951 – September 2017)^[1] was a British writer and novelist.

Harding was born in Prickwillow, a village near Ely, Cambridgeshire,^[2] in 1951. He attended local schools before reading English Literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After university, he moved to London in 1974, where he worked for as a reporter for DC Thomson. After eventually becoming an editor for several popular magazines, Harding went freelance in 1985 to pursue his ambition of becoming a novelist.^[3]

His first book novel, What We Did on Our Holiday was published in 2000. The book describes a man taking his father, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, on holiday to Malta.^[4] It was adapted for TV in 2006 starring Shane Ritchie and Roger Lloyd-Pack.^[2] Harding would go on to publish four more novels, spanning multiple genres.

Harding was married with two children, and lived in Richmond-upon-Thames.^[2] He died in September 2017.^[1]

• What We Did on Our Holiday (2000)
• While the Sun Shines (2002)
• One Big Damn Puzzler (2005)
• Florence and Giles (2010)
• The Girl who Couldn't Read (2014)

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