Authors Families
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Wendy Meddour & Merle Goll discuss 'Patrick and Flippa'
Wendy Meddour is a Doctor of English Literature and an award-winning children's writer. She has written several picture books, including A Hen in the Wardrobe, Lubna and Pebble, Tisha and Blossom, and Peggy the Always Sorry Pigeon. Wendy also teaches Creative Writing at Exeter...
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Logan-Ashley Kisner
Old Wounds takes us to a sleepy backwater town to explore identity and questions around transness. It is Logan Ashley-Kisner's debut YA horror novel. Logan-Ashley is a trans and queer author, born, raised and still living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He studied Creative Writ...
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Olivia Tuffin
Olivia Tuffin, whose passion for horses shines through her writing, joins ReadingZone to tell us about The Horse Who Danced, her exciting new adventure. Olivia lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband, their children, and an assortment of ponies, dogs, pet sheep and chi...
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Alex Foulkes
Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief! Alex is from Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands of England, and lives with her boyfriend and their dog, Mac, who is just small enough to sit on the back of a broomstick (very c...
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Emma Yarlett
Discover what the book-loving monster Nibbles has been up to in his latest adventure, Nibbles the Very Hungry Book Monster! Emma Yarlett grew up in Leicester then moved to study Illustration at University College Falmouth in Cornwall. She won the Macmillan Prize for Ill...
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Katherine Woodfine
Katherine Woodfine and Isabelle Follath introduce their retelling of LM Montgomery's classic story, Anne of Green Gables. Katherine Woodfine writes murder mystery series including Sinclair's Mysteries and The Taylor & Rose Secret Agents series. She...
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Katya Balen
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behaviour. She has worked in a variety of special needs schools as a teaching assistant, and more recently co-founded Mainspring Arts - a not-for-profit organisation that provi...
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BB Alston
BB Alston started writing in middle school, entertaining his classmates with horror stories starring the whole class where not everyone survived! He had just been accepted into a biomedical graduate program when a chance entry into a twitter pitch contest led to his signing with his agent, 20+...
