Authors Families
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Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex. She has published 14 children's books and has also written adult books and plays. She now works as a travel journalist and, with a young granddaughter, she returned to the world of children's books with...
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Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States. His father was a drill sergeant in the US Army. He lived in Hawaii until he was six and then moved to Washington state, where he lived for ten years before moving to Los Angeles t...
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Eleanor Updale
Eleanor Updale was born in London and won a first class degree in history at Oxford University. For many years, she was producer for BBC radio and television. Now, as well as writing the Montmorency books, she is back in the academic world, studying at the Centre For Editing Lives and L...
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Paul Adam
Paul Adam was born in Coventry and grew up in Sheffield. He studied law at Nottingham University, then worked as a journalist in both the UK and Italy. He has written television and film scripts and ten critically-acclaimed thrillers for adults. Escape from Shadow Island is his first book for...
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Eden Maguire
Eden Maguire graduated from Birmingham University with a PhD in English Lit and now lives in the Yorkshire Dales with her two daughters, her horse, Merlin, plus a dog and a cat. She spends part of each year at a ranch in Colorado, where she rides alone in the mountains her idea of perfect happ...
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Paul Dowswell
Described by the Times as one of the best new writers of historical fiction for children, Paul Dowswell is a regular visitor to schools throughout the UK. Starting his working life as a researcher for museums and information books, Paul spent 15 years writing and editing non-fiction (Us...
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E. Lockhart
E. Lockhart is the author of nine novels, including WE WERE LIARS, THE BOYFRIEND LIST, FLY ON THE WALL and THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS which was a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of a Cybils Award for Best Young Adult...
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Paul Howard
Paul Howard is a well-established illustrator with a history of successful picture books and has won numerous awards for his work. His picture books have included Jill Tomlinson's The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, and a series of illustrated fiction titles, Bugville. Paul lives in Bel...
