Authors Families
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Laura Dockrill
Laura Dockrill, a performance poet and novelist, has written her second book focusing on children's mental health. The Dream House, a story about bereavement, follows Butterfly Brain (both published by Piccadilly Press) about memories and grief. Laura...
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Laura Gladwin
Laura Gladwin trained at Leith's School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London's biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for more than 500 events. She now works as a writer and editor...
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Konnie Huq
Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq published her first children's book, Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World, in 2019 and she has now published a third adventure, Cookie and the Most Mysterious Mystery in the World. A live action Cookie TV series based on the awar...
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Karen McCombie
Best-selling author Karen McCombie explores unexpected friendships in her latest novel, How to be a Human. Karen is a full-time writer but before that she worked for several teen magazines such as Just Seventeen, Bliss and Sugar in a variety roles - eve...
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Stephanie Burgis
Like her earlier titles, Stephanie Burgis's new MG fantasy adventure The Raven Heir (Bloomsbury Children's Books) brings the magical into everyday life, inspired by the mountains and castles that surround her home in Wales, where she lives with her hu...
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Vita Murrow
Vita Murrow is an author, artist and educator whose latest collection of stories, Once Upon Our Planet, reflects her desire to help children fall in love with nature. Kirkus magazine described her debut children's title, Power to the Princess, as 'brilliant'....
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Ayisha Malik
Ayisha Malik's new book for children, Seven Sisters, is a story about seven very different but brilliant sisters. Ayisha was born and raised in south London, and worked as a publicist at Penguin Random House and a managing editor at Cornerstones Literary Consu...
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Theresa Lola: Happy Here
Theresa Lola, who has contributed to the Happy Here collection by Black writers and illustrators, is a British Nigerian poet. She won the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She was the 2019/2020 Young People's Laureate for London. Her 2019 debut poetry collection...
