Authors Families
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Alan Gibbons
Author Alan Gibbons shot to stardom when he won the Blue Peter Book Award for 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down' in 2000 with Shadow of the Minotaur, the first title in his Legendeer trilogy. Shadow of the Minotaur was also shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Although it narrowl...
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Alan Snow
Alan Snow is an English artist, working with books, animation, film and computers. He has written and illustrated over 160 books for children, including How Dogs Really Work, The Truth About Cats, and How Santa Really Works. He has also worked on a very diverse range of other projects, includi...
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Fiona Waters
Once upon a time long, long ago, Fiona Waters was born in Edinburgh and she has had her nose in a book ever since. When she was about seven she heard Gabriel Woolf reading The Lady of Shalott on the radio and, from that moment, she was hooked on poetry forever. Fiona has worked with chi...
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Fiona Higgins
F. E. Higgins was born in England but raised in Ireland. She trained and worked as a primary school teacher before turning to writing. She now lives and writes in a house that dates back to the fifteenth century, in a small village in rural Kent. THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS is her debut, and she...
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Faye Bird
Faye Bird lives in London with her family. She studied Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University and always wanted to be a writer, but wasn't brave enough initially to try. In 2012, she decided to be brave and commit seriously to her writing. My secret Lies With You is Faye's thir...
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Fabi Santiago
Fabi Santiago was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has been making pictures ever since she could hold her first crayon. After studying art and design, Fabi went travelling and came across the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, from where she graduated in 2014...
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Eric Maddern
Australian-born Eric's youthful world travels culminated in a period spent working in Aboriginal communities. Now he lives in North Wales, where he has created an idyllic retreat centre in the wild. Eric loves telling traditional tales; especially what he calls 'the old chestnuts'...
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Eric Lindstrom
Eric Lindstrom enjoys writing Young Adult novels, including his debut novel, Not If I See You First, released December 2015, and A Tragic Kind of Wonderful. He has also worked in the interactive entertainment industry for years as a creative director, game designer, writer, and combinat...
