Authors Families

  • Theresa Breslin

    Theresa Breslin

    Theresa Breslin was born in Central Scotland where she still lives with her husband Tom. She has four grown up children. Theresa worked for many years as a librarian with a special interest in children's literature. Her involvement with libraries and the young people who use them have b...

  • Thomas Docherty

    Thomas Docherty

    Thomas Docherty was born in New Zealand but has spent most of his life in England where he went to school and university. He studied metalwork and sculpture at Art College and has always liked drawing, especially whilst on his travels, which have taken him to Africa, Asia and South Amer...

  • Tim Bowler

    Tim Bowler

    Tim Bowler was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the setting of his first novel, Midget. On leaving school he studied Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at East Anglia University, and lived for a while in Sweden. He then worked in a number of fields, including forestry and the timber t...

  • Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim graduated in Drama from the University of Bristol, in 1967. He now holds the position of Special Lecturer in the Department of Drama. He has played leading roles with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. His most recent stage appearance was as Henry Higgins in...

  • Tim Warnes

    Tim Warnes

    Tim Warnes grew up drawing, writing and making stories on an old typewriter, later moving on to making comics. He studied Graphic Design at Kingston University before studying for his degree at Brighton University, where he focused on illustration. After university, he spent four...

  • Toby Ibbotson

    Toby Ibbotson

    Toby Ibbotson is the eldest son of award-winning author Eva Ibbotson, whose novel The Abominables he edited with her first publisher, Marion Lloyd, following his mother's death. Mountwood School for Ghosts is his debut novel, from an original idea by Eva and planned out in detail by the two of...

  • Tom Easton

    Tom Easton

    Tom Easton grew up in Australia and Papua New Guinea and now lives in Farnham with his wife and children. He enjoys playing cricket and football and also plays the drums and guitar. Tom has previously written YA rom-com novels under a variety of pseudonyms for Hodder. HAV3N is his first...

  • Tom Hoyle

    Tom Hoyle

    'Tom Hoyle' (this is not his real name) works by day as a head teacher in a school in north London; during the holidays, he writes. His books have included Thirteen and Spiders, about a boy who comes to the attention of two very different cults.