Authors Families
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Julie Hearn
Julie started her working life as a journalist. She wrote for a daily tabloid newspaper in Australia before returning to England and working as a features editor and 'mother and baby' columnist. After her daughter Tilly was born, she started to train as a teacher at Westminster College, Oxford...
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Julie Mayhew
Julie Mayhew trained as an actress and a journalist and has written extensively for the national press. Other jobs she has done include modelling for Rankin, reading the traffic and travel news for Chris Evans and she once worked in a prison. Her debut novel, Red Ink, was published by H...
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Juno Dawson
Juno Dawson grew up in West Yorkshire and now lives in Brighton. She has worked previously as a teacher, specialising in PSHCE and behaviour, and as a journalist, interviewing bands including Atomic Kitten and Steps and writing a weekly serial for a Brighton newspaper. She contributes r...
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Justin Fisher
Justin Fisher has been a designer, illustrator and animator for both film and television. He has designed title sequences for several Hollywood film - from X-Men 2 to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - branded music TV channels and has worked extensively in advertising. But after many years o...
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Justine Windsor
Justine Windsor is a debut author but has been shortlisted for writing awards including the Times/Chicken House children's writers prize and the youwriteone.com Children's Book of the Year. She lives and works in London. Goodly and Grave in a Bad Case of Kidnap was her first published book.
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Kai Meyer
Kai Meyer is one of the most successful writers in Germany. Having studied film and drama, he worked as a journalist before devoting himself to full time writing. His two fantasy trilogies for children, both to be published by Egmont, appeared on adult and children's bestseller lists in German...
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Kalynn Bayron
Kalynn Bayron is a debut author and a classically trained vocalist. She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. When she's not writing, you can find her listening to Ella Fitzgerald on loop, goingto the theatre, watching scary movies and spending time with her kids. She currently liv...
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Karen Foxlee
LENNY'S BOOK OF EVERYTHING PUSHKIN CHILDREN'S BOOKS MAY 2019 LENNY'S BOOK OF EVERYTHING is Lenny's account of her childhood and growing up with her younger brother, Davey, who has a condition that makes him grow too quickly. Their childhood landscape of games, carers...
