Authors Schools & Libraries
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Sarah Rees Brennan
Sarah Rees Brennan, is Irish and currently lives in Dublin. For a short stint, she lived in New York and became involved with a wide circle of writers who encouraged and supported her, including Holly Black (Ironside, The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Cassandra Clare (City of Bones). She h...
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Sarah Singleton
Sarah Singleton is the author of Century, Heretic, Sacrifice and Amethyst Child. Her debut novel, Century, was the winner of the Book Trust Teenage Book Prize in 2005. She was born in rural Northamptonshire and holds an honours degree in English Literature and Language from the University of N...
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Satoshi Kitamura
Satoshi Kitamura was born in Tokyo and worked in advertising there before moving to London in 1980. He won the Mother Goose Award for Angry Arthur. He is now one of the most distinguished illustrators in Britain.
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Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld was born in Texas in 1963. He lives with his wife, writer Justine Larbalestier, and they divide their time between their houses in New York and Sydney, Australia. He has written five science fiction novels for adults and three sets of books for young adults. His YA nove...
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SE Durrant
S.E. Durrant has wanted to be a writer since she was a child and has always squeezed writing in around the edges of her life. She spent her childhood in Scotland before moving to Leicestershire when she was twelve. She studied Fine Art (painting) and then travelled widely before settlin...
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Chris Ryan
Less than a week after the outbreak of the Gulf War, Chris Ryan and 7 fellow SAS soldiers were dropped by helicopter in the Iraqi desert. Their mission was to locate and destroy Saddam Husseins mobile Scud missile launches but it ended in catastrophic failure with three men dead and four captu...
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Sean McManus
Sean McManus writes inspiring books that introduce children to programming, including Scratch Programming in Easy Steps, Cool Scratch Projects in Easy Steps and Raspberry Pi For Dummies (co-authored). Sean learned to program when he was nine, starting with the Logo language, which is of...
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Chris Riddell
Chris and his family moved to Britain from Cape Town when he was a year old. Due to his father's peripatetic lifestyle as a liberal Anglican Vicar, Chris, his sister and two brothers grew up everywhere from Bristol to Brixton. Despite there being no strong artistic influences in the family, Ch...
