Authors Families

  • Matilda Woods

    Matilda Woods

    Matilda Woods was born in 1989 and has been writing stories for the last seven years. She grew up in a small town near Canberra, Australia where she still lives today. She currently splits her time between writing middle grade fiction and working as a youth worker. When she was younger she lov...

  • Matt Dickinson

    Matt Dickinson

    Matt Dickinson is a writer and film maker with an enduring (and occasionally dangerous) fascination for people who push the limits. As a film maker he has worked extensively for National Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel and the BBC and is one of the very few director/cameram...

  • Matt Haig

    Matt Haig

    Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1975. Since then he has lived in Nottinghamshire, Ibiza and London. He studied English and History at Hull University and then did an MA at Leeds. He now lives in Brighton with the writer Andrea Semple and their two children.

  • Matt Killeen

    Matt Killeen

    Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham and, like many of his generation, was absorbed by tales of the war and obsessed with football from an early age. After careers in advertising as a copywriter and in music and sports journalism, he completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Manc...

  • Matt Oldfield

    Matt Oldfield

    Matt Oldfield is one half of Matt and Tom Oldfield, the brothers behind the Heroes Football book series for children aged 7-12 years old. Their fun biographies tell the life stories of the world's greatest footballers including Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez and Wayne Rooney. Matt also works...

  • Matt Robertson

    Matt Robertson

    Matt Robertson grew up in Suffolk, and spent most of his childhood drawing and creating characters. He completed his MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2014, receiving a Distinction for his work. Matt was the winner of a Lara Jones Award and received second...

  • Matthew Skelton

    Matthew Skelton

    Matthew Skelton's debut novel Endymion Spring was plucked from the slush pile of the Felicity Bryan Agency in Oxford, for its outstanding originality of style. Matthew's only other previously published work is a short story, The Man Who Did Not Dream, which was selected for Richard and Judy's...

  • Maudie Smith

    Maudie Smith

    Maudie Smith started out as an actor, devising new musical plays for which she also wrote lyrics. Her many roles in children's theatre include the Snow Queen and Piglet. More recently she has written a libretto for a newly commissioned opera. In 2011 she completed an MA in Writing for Young Pe...