Authors Families

  • Holly Black

    Holly Black

    Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for children and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles and the Curse Workers series. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre...

  • Holly Race

    Holly Race

    Holly Race works as a development executive in the film and TV industry, most recently with Aardman Animations. Holly is a Faber Academy graduate, and Midnight's Twins is her debut novel and the first in a trilogy. After spending several happy years in East London, a few streets...

  • Holly Rivers

    Holly Rivers

    HOLLY RIVERS grew up in Wales and speaks fluent Welsh and English. As a child she spent a lot of time drawing, reading and wishing that she was Pippi Longstocking. Holly used to be an actress, most notably playing Drusilla Paddock in ITV's original Worst Witch series. Her days are now s...

  • Holly Smale

    Holly Smale

    Holly Smale is the author of Geek Girl, Model Misfit, Picture Perfect and All That Glitters. She was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of 15 and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she couldn't affor...

  • Ian Beck

    Ian Beck

    Ian Beck was born in Hove on the Sussex coast in 1947. At the age of thirteen, after seeing an exhibition of drawings for the Radio Times, he was fired with enthusiasm about illustration and began attending Saturday painting classes at the nearby Brighton College of Art. Ian left school at fif...

  • Ian Ogilvy

    Ian Ogilvy

    Ian is best known as an actor in particular for his take-over of the role of The Saint from Roger Moore. He has appeared in countless television productions, both here and in the United States, has made a number of films and starred often on the West End stage. Ian was born in Woking, S...

  • Ian Whybrow

    Ian Whybrow

    Ian Whybrow was born in Gilliam, Kent, however he likes to keep the date confidential! He is a qualified teacher and lives in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex and Almeley Wootton, Herefordshire (although not simultaneously.) His first book 'The Sniff Stories' was published in 1989. Ian rec...

  • Ifeoma Onyefulu

    Ifeoma Onyefulu

    Ifeoma Onyefulu was brought up in eastern Nigeria. After completing a business management course she trained as a photographer, contributing to a number of magazines. Her highly-acclaimed children's books counteract negative images of Africa by celebrating its traditional village life.<...