Authors Families

  • Martyn Bedford

    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...

  • Mary Hoffman

    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...

  • Mary Hooper

    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...

  • 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...