Authors Families
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Louise Rennison
Louise Rennison lives in Brighton, a place that she likes to think of as the San Francisco of the South Coast. Which is sad as it is nothing like San Francisco, being mainly pebbles and large people in tiny swimming knickers who have gone bright red in the sun. Although she lives in Brighton i...
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Louise Yates
Louise Yates writes and illustrates children's books. Her first book A SMALL SURPRISE, was published by Random House in 2009. DOG LOVES BOOKS followed in 2010, debuted as a New York Times bestseller and went on to win the Parents' Choice Award in the US. In the UK, Dog Loves Book...
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Lucy Adlington
Lucy Adlington is a writer, actress and costume historian. Her novels for teenagers, written under the name LJ Adlington and including The Diary of Pelly-D and Burning Mountain, have been nominated and/or shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Manchester Book Prize, the Leeds Book Prize...
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Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking is a journalist and author. She studied Modern Languages at Oxford University before going on to complete a years training in International Journalism at City University, London. She has written for many national newspapers in the UK as well as New York Magazine in the USA. <p...
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Lucy Strange
Lucy Strange worked as an actor, singer and storyteller before becoming a secondary school English teacher. She lives in the Kent countryside with her partner James, their baby boy and a tortoiseshell cat known as the Moo. Our Castle by the Sea is Lucy's second novel for Chicken House,...
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Lydia Monks
Lydia Monks lives in Sheffield. Her favourite subjects at school were Art, English and RE. She then went on to Kingston University where she studied for a degree in illustration. She has always liked the idea of writing and illustrating books and finds her ideas in everyday life, and is...
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Lydia Syson
Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation Londoner, though she spent her early childhood in Botswana. She has worked with words and stories all her life, in her early career as a radio producer for the BBC World Service, and now as an author of historical YA fiction. She is particularly attracted to c...
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Lynley Dodd
Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's bestselling children's author/artist. Her rhyming picture books featuring the irresistible Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki and friends are firm favourites, especially for reading aloud, all over the world. Lynley was born in Rotorua, New Zealand on July 5th 19...
