Authors Families

  • Nick Arnold

    Nick Arnold

    Nick Arnold's first published books appeared seven years ago when he was working at the University of North London on a project teaching children about nature. From this, he started to write magazine articles. One day Nick had a brilliant idea - if he could write articles, then he could write...

  • Nick Butterworth

    Nick Butterworth

    NICK BUTTERWORTH was born in Kingsbury, North London in 1946, but moved to Romford in Essex with his parents at the age of three. They moved to run a sweet shop, so Nick found himself fulfilling every child's sugar-coated dream of growing up right inside the proverbial chocolate factory. <...

  • Nicky Singer

    Nicky Singer

    Nicky Singer has worked in publishing, the arts and television. She co-founded, and for ten years co-directed, Performing Arts Labs, a charity dedicated to training writers for stage, screen and opera. Her own writing career began when she was 15 years old with lyrics for a cantata, Jon...

  • Nicola Davies

    Nicola Davies

    Nicola Davies is an award-winning author, whose many books for children include A First Book of Nature, Ice Bear, Big Blue Whale, Dolphin Baby, Bat Loves the Night and the Silver Street Farm series. She graduated in zoology, studied whales and bats and then worked for the BBC Natural Hi...

  • Nicola Kent

    Nicola Kent

    Nicola Kent graduated from the prestigious Cambridge School of Art MA with a distinction and was Highly Commended in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration in 2016. She worked for ten years as a television producer at the BBC and Channel 4 before following her dream of becoming an author...

  • Nicola Killen

    Nicola Killen

    Nicola Killen has always loved drawing and colouring in. She designed greetings cards for several years before her love of children's books led her to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. During the course she started putting down words to go with her pic...

  • Nicola Pierce

    Nicola Pierce

    Tallaght-born Nicola Pierce lives in Drogheda, Ireland. Following many successful ghostwritten books for adults, Nicola published her first book for children, Spirit of the Titanic, in 2013. The book received rave reviews, and ran to five editions within the first 12 months of publication. Cit...

  • Nigel Richardson

    Nigel Richardson

    Nigel Richardson is the author of two previous books, Breakfast in Brighton and Dog Days in Soho. Now a full-time writer, he recently left The Daily Telegraph after 13 years as the Deputy Travel Editor, a post that took him all over the world. He has also written several plays and a drama seri...