Authors Families
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As a teenager, he began telling his tales with words. He studied illustration at Art Center College of Design, including courses on children's books. He moved to N...
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Padraig Kenny
Padraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian's assistant, he now writes full-time. He is married with four children. His first novel TIN was a Waterstones Book of the Month and was nominated for th...
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Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer worked as a teacher before turning his attention to full-time writing for children. He is best known for his phenomenally successful Artemis Fowl series. Eoin lives with his family in Ireland.
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Ross Welford
Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows such as The Big Breakfast, This Morning and Bridezillas. He lives in London with his wife, children, dog and tropical fish. Ross's highly acclaimed debut novel, Tim...
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Francesca Gibbons
Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Shadow Moth when she was a child, inspired by the gardens she visited and her love of folklore and monsters. Now it's the first book in her middle-grade trilogy, A Clock of...
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Roland Chambers
Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and illustrator who lives on a tumbledown farm with his family and plenty of pigs near Dartmoor. He is the prize-winning writer of The Last Englishman, a biography of Arthur...
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Andy Sagar
Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for a Master's degree in Law at the University of Cambridge, where he spent lectures daydreaming about stories of witches and dragons and cake. He's now pursuing a PH...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel, and the follow-up, Woodwitch (Welbeck) Skye grew in a mining town in the Australian outback. Surrounded by the red dust of the P...
