Authors Families

  • Rosie Rowell

    Rosie Rowell

    Rosie Rowell was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. After completing a BA degree in English and Economics at the University of Cape Town, Rosie arrived in the UK on a short working holiday and never quite managed to leave. She now lives in in the wilds of West Sussex with her husband...

  • Christian O'Connell

    Christian O'Connell

    Christian O'Connell is a British radio DJ and stand-up comic, who presents the The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio weekday mornings. He has also written his first children's book called Radio Boy, about a boy who is desperate to become a DJ and starts his own radio show, i...

  • Russell Ayto

    Russell Ayto

    Russell Ayto is best known for his anarchic and stylish artwork. He graduated from Exeter College of Art with a degree in Graphic Design and has since been delighting children all over the world. He won the Gold Smarties Award in 2003 for The Witch's Children, and the Roald Dahl Funny P...

  • Ruth Brown

    Ruth Brown

    Ruth Brown has created a great many picture books for Andersen Press and is highly respected as an author and illustrator. She is married to artist Ken Brown and they have two grown-up sons and 1 grandson.

  • Ruth Warburton

    Ruth Warburton

    Ruth Warburton grew up on the south coast of England in Lewes; a small town with a long history. After leaving Lewes she studied English at the University of Manchester, and there developed a fascination with Old English and Middle English texts. While researching A WITCH IN WINTER she...

  • Ryan Graudin

    Ryan Graudin

    Ryan Graudin was born in Charleston, South Carolina with a severe case of wanderlust. When she's not travelling, she's busy photographing weddings, writing and spending time with her husband and wolf-dog.

  • Ryan Wheatcroft

    Ryan Wheatcroft

    Ryan studied illustration at the University of Lincoln, England and has worked as an illustrator for the last couple of years since graduating. He lives on the outskirts of the very hilly city of Sheffield, England, with his family and pets and spends most of his time making pictures for books...

  • Saci Lloyd

    Saci Lloyd

    Before becoming an internationally-acclaimed author and activist, Saci Lloyd has held down a bewildering variety of non-jobs, including being a storyboard artist, a cartoonist, a singer in a band, an animator and a script editor for Camouflage Films. She recently stepped down as Head of...