Authors Families

  • Helen Craig

    Helen Craig

    Helen Craig is the joint creator, with Katharine Holabird, of the enduringly popular ANGELINA BALLERINA books. With a new TV series, ANGELINA is set to pirouette to even greater levels of fame. Helen Craig was born in London but moved, with her family, to the country just ahead of the o...

  • Helen Creswell

    Helen Creswell

    Helen started writing at the age of six. At that time her primary interest was poetry. As well as being the author of many critically acclaimed novels, she has written many television scripts, including Five Children and It, Lizzie Dripping, The Demon Headmaster, and The Phoenix and the Carpet...

  • Helen Dunmore

    Helen Dunmore

    HELEN DUNMORE is an award-winning novelist and poet as well as a children's writer. She has published eight collections of poetry, and has written eight novels and two collections of short stories. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and her most recent novel, The Siege, was shortlisted...

  • Helen Hancocks

    Helen Hancocks

    Helen Hancocks graduated in 2011 with a degree in illustration and animation from Manchester School of Art. Her work often features cats. When she is not drawing, she can be found at the cinema, or just watching the world go by. Helen Hancocks lives in Lincoln, England.

  • Helen Hobden

    Helen Hobden

    Helen Hobden lives in Tonbridge. She is interested in photography and art, as well as music festivals (which feature in this story), and she does kickboxing and surfing. She says she also does skateboarding, but only when no-one is looking! She has been writing since she was very small, and st...

  • Helena Duggan

    Helena Duggan

    Helena Duggan is a children's author, graphic designer and illustrator from Kilkenny, a medieval town in Ireland, which was the inspiration for A Place Called Perfect. Lately, a lot of new things have happened in her life. She got a puppy - he limped out in front of her car one morning...

  • Helena Pielchaty

    Helena Pielchaty

    Helena Pielichaty was born in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to England when she was five. Her writing career started at the age of eleven when the Yorkshire Post published her poem, Litter, hailed, as Helena puts it, 'as a literary triumph by my grandma.' Helena's writing career was then...

  • Henry Porter

    Henry Porter

    Henry Porter is the author of Lies Damned Lies (1984), an expose of British journalism, and four published adult novels: Remembrance Day (1999) A Spy's Life (2001), Empire State (2003) and Brandenburg (2005), which won the Ian Fleming Dagger Award for best thriller. He studied art in Italy and...