Authors Families
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Sarah Lean
Sarah Lean grew up in Wells, Somerset but now lives in Dorset with her husband, son and dog. She has worked as a page-planner for a newspaper, a stencil-maker and a gardener, amongst various other things. She gained a first class English degree and became a primary school teacher before return...
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Sarah Lodge
Sarah Lodge graduated from Cambridge School of Art's MA in Children's Book Illustration in 2014 with a distinction. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the AOI World Illustration Awards New Talent Award. She is a part-time children's bookseller and illustrator. Find her on tw...
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Sarah McIntyre
Sarah grew up in Seattle in the United States and did her first university degree in Russian language and literature. Ten years later, she studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Art in London. Her first UK picture book was Morris the Mankiest Monster with Giles Andreae. Her solo...
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Sarah Mussi
Sarah Mussi is a multi-award winning author of children's and YA fiction. She grew up in the Cotswolds, went to school in Cheltenham, and graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Winchester and an MA from the Royal College of Art. After completing her MA, she left for West Africa. An Englis...
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Sarah Rees Brennan
Sarah Rees Brennan, is Irish and currently lives in Dublin. For a short stint, she lived in New York and became involved with a wide circle of writers who encouraged and supported her, including Holly Black (Ironside, The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Cassandra Clare (City of Bones). She h...
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Sarah Singleton
Sarah Singleton is the author of Century, Heretic, Sacrifice and Amethyst Child. Her debut novel, Century, was the winner of the Book Trust Teenage Book Prize in 2005. She was born in rural Northamptonshire and holds an honours degree in English Literature and Language from the University of N...
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Satoshi Kitamura
Satoshi Kitamura was born in Tokyo and worked in advertising there before moving to London in 1980. He won the Mother Goose Award for Angry Arthur. He is now one of the most distinguished illustrators in Britain.
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Chris Wooding
Born in 1977, Chris Wooding grew up in an ex-mining town in the Midlands. Books provided his escape from the grim surroundings and by the time he was a teenager, Wooding had decided he wanted to be an author.He wrote while studying English Literature at the University of Sheffield and hi...
