Authors Families

  • Sam Gayton

    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...

  • Sam Osman

    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...

  • Samuel J Halpin

    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...

  • Sandi Toksvig

    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...

  • Sandra Glover

    Sandra Glover

    Sandra Glover is a a writer for children who combines the very best of the worlds of contemporary 'issue' novels with the magic of the best fantasy and adventure stories. Her first book for Corgi, THE NOWHERE BOY, was shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book Award and the Lanarkshire Chi...

  • Sandy Stark-McGinnis

    Sandy Stark-McGinnis

    Sandy Stark-McGinnis is a debut author and an award-winning poet whose poetry and short stories have appeared in Quercus Review, In the Grove and Penumbra. Sandy lives with her husband and children in California, where she works as a fifth grade teacher. www.sandystarkmcginnis.co...

  • Sara Grant

    Sara Grant

    Sara loves everything about books writing, editing, and reading them. She has a brain full of story ideas and a bookcase overflowing with books. She also adores visiting schools, libraries and bookshops and sharing her passion for stories. As a senior commissioning editor for Working Partners,...

  • Sara Holland

    Sara Holland

    Sara Holland grew up in small-town Minnesota among hundreds of books. After graduating from university, she worked in a tea shop, a dentist's office, and a state capitol building before heading to New York to work in publishing. These days, she can be found exploring the city's bookstores and...