Authors Families
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Sally Green
Sally Green, whose debut Half Bad was published in 2014, studied mining geology at a university in London before moving into accountancy in Lancashire. She left work when she became pregnant and did some further studying, an Open University courses in social sciences, before spending a weekend...
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Sally Prue
Sally Prue first started making up stories as a teenager, when she realized that designing someone else's adventures was almost as satisfying as having her own. After leaving school Sally joined practically all the rest of her family working at the nearby paper mill. She now teaches recorder a...
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Sally Rippin
Sally Rippin was born in Darwin, Australia, and grew up in South-East Asia. Sally has written many books for children, including Chenxi and the Foreigner and the Go Girl series, and she has illustrated many others. Sally lives in Melbourne with her family.
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Sam Angus
Sam Angus was born in Italy and grew up in France and in Spain, in the final years of General Franco's dictatorship. She read English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge and went on to study fashion at Central St Martin's College of Art before setting up her own sportswear label, Sam de T...
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Sam Gayton
Sam Gayton, a former teacher, lives in south London where he works part-time as a journalist and a writer. In 2009 he completed the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa University. The Snow Merchant is his first book. He loves American novels, Italian food and the English countryside. When...
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Sam Osman
I live in London with my husband, three children a dog, four hamsters and a goldfish. Although I was brought up in England by my English mother, my father was from Sudan. I lived there until I was three and began to revisit my Sudanese family regularly in my twenties. I read modern lang...
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Samuel J Halpin
Born in Tasmania with Irish roots, Samuel J Halpin is 27 and writes daily. Having studied journalism at the University of South Wales, Samuel went on to take cinematography at AFTRS, the national Australian film school in Sydney before moving to London and working in comedy TV production. The...
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Sandi Toksvig
As the daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi Toksvig grew up in Europe, Africa and America. After schooling in America and a first-class degree from Cambridge, Sandi went into the theatre where she both wrote and performed before becoming one of the founder members of the Comedy St...
