Authors
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Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series
Eric Huang has always been fascinated by legends and lore and East Asian myths have helped inspire his debut series, Guardians of the New Moon. As a boy, he was determined to find real-life dragons, so he studied palaeontology at university. Reality didn't live up to hi...
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Alice Nuttall introduces her gripping eco-horror novel, The Zombie Project
When Alice Nuttall was little, she was given a giant stack of yellowing scrap paper from the factory where her grandfather worked. She started writing stories on it, and didn't stop even when it eventually ran out. Today, she writes children's stories and webcomics, as well as pet-sitti...
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Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, Frank and Bert. Chris, who is from Bradford, studied illustration at Bradford College of Art before moving to France where he now lives....
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Exploring grief, family and community in Let the Light In
Mother and son team Jenny Downham and Louis Hill introduce their first collaborative novel, Let the Light In. Jenny Downham's first novel, Before I Die, is an international bestseller and was made into the blockbuster film, Now Is Good. She has also wri...
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Blessing Musariri
Award-winning author Blessing Musariri's new YA novel, When It's Your Turn for Midnight, draws on the Zimbabwean civil war in a rich story about family, belonging and inheritance. Blessing writes short stories, children’s stories, radio and screenplays, and contemporar...
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Jonathan Stroud
The final book in Jonathan Stroud's Scarlett and Browne series, The Legendary Scarlett and Browne, is now available! Stroud worked as an editor at Walker Books when his first book, Buried Fire, was published. He has since written two internationally bestselling series:...
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MG Leonard introduces her Time Keys adventures
MG Leonard's new Time Keys series takes us into the world of time-travel and ancient mysteries. She is also the author of bestselling series including The Twitchers, Beetle Boy and <a href="/aut...
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Jana Curll introduces My Path
Jana Curll is an illustrator/author living on the edge of Canada's rainy west coast. Growing up near-sighted and comic book-obsessed has lent itself well to a career where she draws smiley-faces on unsuspecting objects. She took an Illustration and Design programme at Capilano Universit...