Authors Families

  • James Davies

    James Davies

    James Davies is an illustrator and author from Wales, now living in Bristol. He has recently returned to illustration with the 'Meet the....' series (including Meet the Ancient Egyptians, Meet the Ancient Romans) published by Big Picture Press - a uniquely bold, graphic style, influence...

  • James Holland

    James Holland

    James Holland was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and studied history at Durham University. He is the bestselling author of numerous historical non-fiction titles and the Jack Tanner fiction series, and recently presented Battle of Britain: The Real Story on BBC2. A member of the British...

  • James Patterson

    James Patterson

    James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade: the Womens Murder Club, the Alex Cross novels and Maximum Ride, and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novel...

  • James Weston Lewis

    James Weston Lewis

    Born in Bath, James moved to Oxfordshire when he was 5 where he grew up in a small village. He did an Art Foundation degree at Oxford Brookes University and then moved to Bristol to study Illustration at the University of the West of England, where he specialised in Print. James now lives in L...

  • Jamie Buxton

    Jamie Buxton

    Jamie Buxton read English at Cambridge and has been writing all his adult life. He taught in the States for a while and splits his time between London, Dartmoor, his car, local cafes and libraries. He is married with one child plus dogs, cats and all their fleas. He has also travelled e...

  • Jamie Thomson

    Jamie Thomson

    Jamie Thomson is the minion and slave of the Dark Lord, Dirk Lloyd. Hes an author and games developer who has written numerous choose-your-own-adventure style gamebooks, including some titles from the Fighting Fantasy series and The Way of the Tiger (six linked adventures about a ninja hero: e...

  • Jamila Gavin

    Jamila Gavin

    Jamila Gavin was born in India in the foothills of the Himalayas, and came to England for secondary school. She has vivid childhood memories and looks back on her early years with fondness. Jamila was nearly 12 years old when she came to settle in England and was very aware of the cultu...

  • Jan Mark

    Jan Mark

    From an early age Jan Mark considered herself a writer. Although she didn't foresee that her writing would become her career, she actually studied art and design and taught English and Art for 6 years, she turned to writing full time in 1975 and has published over 65 novels, short stories, pic...