Authors Families
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Julia Golding
Julia Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. After reading English at Cambridge, she joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.<...
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Jenny Pearson
Jenny Pearson is a primary school teacher based in north east England. She loves her job and her debut book, The Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates, about a group of three boys on a make-or-break adventure, draws on many of the children she has taught. Jenny also loves swimming - she w...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes grew up in Pennsylvania. She is an author of adult and children's books, a Coretta Scott King Honour award-winner, and a professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She currently lives in San Jose in the US.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
