Authors Families
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Mark Powers
Author Mark Powers has been making up ridiculous stories since primary school and is slightly shocked to find that people now pay him to do it. As a child he always daydreamed that his teddy bear went off on top secret missions when he was at school, so a team of toys recruited as spies seemed...
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Mark Robson
MARK ROBSON was born in Essex and raised, for the most part, in Camarthen, West Wales.In 1982 he gained a scholarship to join the Royal Air Force and was an operational pilot for morethan twenty years. His career as a writer began during his time in the Falklands; bad weather...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is best known as the author of The Book Thief, a breathtaking novel about a girl living in Nazi Germany whose world is opened up by reading. The book became a word of mouth bestseller across the globe. Fighting Ruben Wolfe is Markus's second novel which was first published a decad...
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Martin Brown
Martin Brown is best known for his illustrations of the best-selling Horrible Histories series. Martin is from Australia where he grew up a suburban boy in Melbourne, Australia. Ever since he can remember, he's been doodling drawing cartoons. This enthusiasm for non-stop doodling and hi...
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Martyn Bedford
Martin Waddell is one of the most popular, talented and respected authors of children's books writing today. He was awarded the internationally prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for his lasting contribution to children's literature, the first Irish writer to be so honoured. He has work...
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Martyn Bedford
Martyn Bedford is the prize-winning author of five novels for adults - including Acts of Revision and The Houdini Girl - which between them have been translated into thirteen langauges. His first novel for teenagers and young adults, Flip (Walker Books, 2011), was shortlisted for the Co...
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Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman is a prolific and prize-winning author who has written more than 80 books for children. Amazing Grace, her first book for Frances Lincoln, remains one of her most popular titles. It has sold over 1.5 million copies and was commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal and selected for th...
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Mary Hooper
Mary Hooper has been writing professionally for over twenty years. She started by writing short stories and serials for teenage and women's magazines when her children were small. Having done a few hundred, and thinking it would be good to see something more permanent on the shelves, she wrote...
