Authors Families

  • David Gilman

    David Gilman

    David Gilman has had an enormously impressive variety of jobs from firefighter to professional photographer, from soldier in the Parachute Regiment's Reconnaissance Platoon to Marketing Manager for Penguin South Africa. He is also a hugely successful television screenwriter. For the last six y...

  • Dave Shelton

    Dave Shelton

    Dave Shelton was born and raised in Leicester. He studied illustration at Cambridge and, later, at Brighton, where he attained his MA in Sequential Illustration. He worked for some years as a jobbing illustrator before creating the comic strip Good Dog, Bad Dog, a slapstick comedy canine noir...

  • Dave Rudden

    Dave Rudden

    Dave is a trained teacher and writer currently living in Dublin. He completed a Masters in Creative Writing from University College Dublin and is represented by Darley Anderson Literary Agency. He regularly performs as part of Dublin's spoken word scene and his first novel The Borrowed Dark wi...

  • Dave Cousins

    Dave Cousins

    Dave Cousins completed his first novel in the back of a van, while touring with his band (who were almost famous!) He went on to be a winner of the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2010 and his debut novel for teens, 15 Days Without a Head, was published by Oxford University Press in...

  • Dave Barry

    Dave Barry

    Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist whose column appears in more than five hundred newspapers in the USA and abroad. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Boogers Are My Beat, Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys and Big Trouble, several of which have been adapted fo...

  • Darren Simpson

    Darren Simpson

    Darren Simpson lives with his wife and children in Nottingham. He has written numerous adult short stories, and The Dust on the Moth, a crowdfunded multimedia collaboration including music downloads, art and photography. Scavengers was his first book for younger readers.

  • Darren Shan

    Darren Shan

    DARREN Shan was born on 2 July 1972 in London. After starting school at the age of three, he moved to Limerick with his parents and younger brother. He went back to London to study Sociology/English at college. Darren worked for a cable television company for 2 years before setting up a...

  • Danny Wallace

    Danny Wallace

    Danny Wallace is a British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television. His first novel for adult readers, Charlotte Street, was an international bestseller & followed in the wake of his non-fiction bestsellers which include Awkward Situations for Men, Yes Man...