Authors Families
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
