Authors Families
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Emma Young
Emma Young is an award-winning science and health journalist and author. She has a degree in psychology from the University of Durham and 20 years' experience working on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter...
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Emma Yarlett
Emma Yarlett grew up in Leicester before moving to study illustration at University College Falmouth in Cornwall. Whilst there she began working as a freelance illustrator and in her third year was 'Highly Commended' in the Macmillan Prize for her book Sidney and his Shadow. After attending th...
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Emma Shevah
Emma Shevah's debut novel, Dream on, Amber was published by Chicken House in March 2014 and Dara Palmer's Major Drama was published in 2015. Her father was from Thailand and her mother is from Ireland and although she lives in London, she has travelled far and wide and has friends all o...
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Emma Fischel
Emma Fischel writes fiction and non-fiction for children of all ages. She grew up in the country, the middle of five siblings, and had a happy, muddy childhood. Emma now has three grown-up children, and divides her time between Kent and London. If she is ever offered a superpower, she w...
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Emma Donoghue
Best known as an author of fiction for adults, Emma also writes for the stage and radio. The Lotterys Plus One is her first book for children. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, she's the youngest of eight children. She went to school in Ireland, apart from one eye-opening year i...
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Emma Dodd
Emma grew up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists who gave her plenty of space, and resources, to explore her creativity. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator. Emma...
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Oisin McGann
Oisin McGann was born in Dublin in 1973 and spent his childhood there and in Drogheda, County Louth. Art college ruined any chance he had of getting a real job, so when he left in 1992, he set himself up as a freelance illustrator. In 1998, he moved to London and through no fault of his...
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Emma Chichester Clark
Emma Chichester Clark was born in London. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and then the Royal College where she was taught by Quentin Blake. She won the Mother Goose Award in 1988.
