Authors Families

  • Elizabeth Laird

    Elizabeth Laird

    Elizabeth Laird was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but is of Scottish descent and was educated at Croydon High School. She spent a year teaching in Malaysia, before studying languages at Bristol and Edinburgh universities. Liz has spent much of her life living and working abroad, incl...

  • KL Kettle

    KL Kettle

    KL Kettle is a global business person, girl boss and general nerd wrangler by day; by night she writes novels, short stories and flash fiction. She has been long-listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award 2017 and shortlisted by SCBWI as a 2018 Undiscovered Voice for THE BOY I AM.Made...

  • Helen Harvey

    Helen Harvey

    Helen grew up in a wild and unruly corner of the internet, where she dodged flames, crafted websites and led a guild of magical wolf-tamers. From a young age she realised that technology gave children superpowers. Besides writing, Helen has had many jobs including building jousting aren...

  • Isabella Tree & Allira Tee

    Isabella Tree & Allira Tee

    Isabella Tree is an award-winning nature and travel author, and conservation pioneer. Her bestselling adult book, Wilding - the return of nature to a British farm, (200,000 copies sold) tells the story of Knepp, the groundbreaking rewilding project in West Sussex that she star...

  • S.M. Wilson

    S.M. Wilson

    S.M. Wilson lives on the west coast of Scotland with her fiance and two sons. Her day job is as a nurse in public health - and her dream job is writing fiction.Her love of YA fiction started as a teenager and has never stopped. She wrote The Extinc...

  • Jessie James & Tamara Anegon

    Jessie James & Tamara Anegon

    Tamara Anegon attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Following this, she studied for a masters degree in art, creation and research, specialising in children's and picture book illustration. She has illustrated several children's books.You can f...

  • Lindsay Galvin

    Lindsay Galvin

    Lindsay was lucky enough to be raised in a house of stories, music, and love of the sea. She left part of her heart underwater after living and working in Thailand where she spent hundreds of blissful hours scuba diving.Forced now to surface for breath, she lives in sight of the ch...

  • Paul Coomey

    Paul Coomey

    Paul Coomey is an all-round talented writer and illustrator who spends his hours doodling and creating stories.Paul is from Cork, Ireland, and now lives in London. Stick Boy is his debut novel.