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Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley
Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, features Gambian mythology. Davina Tijani grew up in London and Surrey and went on to study at the University of East Anglia and University College London, before pursuing w...
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Olivia Tuffin
Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, dogs, pet sheep and chickens. She never outgrew the pony-mad stage and her favourite thing to do is to ride off for hours into the countryside with her children. She...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize amongst many...
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James Burks
Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of disguise. He's spent over 20 years working undercover in the animation industry on movies and television shows including Bravest Warriors, Space Jam, Treasure Planet, The E...
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Hayley Webster
Hayley Webster writes stories about how people try to make sense of the world around them, when it so often doesn't make sense. Her first ever job was in a fish and chip shop, and since then she's worked in magazines and as a teacher in secondary and primary schools, and now she writes and edi...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children caught up in its theft. Judith is also the author of The Secret Starling, The Pear Affair and The Accidental Stowaway. Her career thus far has i...
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Paige Braddock
Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Creative Officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. She has illustrated several Peanuts children's books. Her other graphic novels for children include the Stinky Ce...
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Tania Unsworth
Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent her childhood in Cambridge before moving to America in her early twenties. She comes from a literary, Booker Prize-winning family of writers and lives in Boston, USA, with...
