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Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls is no stranger to extremes. During a three-year stint in the SAS he was involved in a horrific parachuting accident in Africa and broke his back in three places. Months of rehabilitation followed but, never losing sight of his childhood dream of climbing Everest, Bear went on to be...
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Barry Jonsberg
Wonderfully funny, slick, streetwise young teen fiction doesn't turn up often. But this is the real McCoy. 'The whole Business with Kiffo and the Pit Bull' isn't a worthy literary tome- it is pacy, hilarious and quirky- we might challenge you not to stay up half the night reading it. <b...
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Barry Hutchison
Barry Hutchison is a multi-award-winning author of books for children and teenagers. He lives halfway up a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland, where he spends his days writing stories, walking his dog, and wrestling wolves*. He is the author of the terrifying Invisible Fiends series,...
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Barbara Mitchelhill
Barbara Mitchelhill trained as a teacher and has taught in secondary and junior schools. She is now a part-time editor for an education publisher and writes in her spare time. She has written for many educational publishers.
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Bali Rai
Bali Rai was born in 1971 and raised as a working class Punjabi in Leicester. He grew up in a deprived area of Leicester, a city which is almost unique in terms of cultural mix, and his style of writing is firmly grounded in the reality that he has seen around him since he was a child. The sen...
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Axel Scheffler
Axel Scheffler was born in 1957 in Hamburg, Germany. At school, although always good at art, he never really considered a career in illustration. But long before he began his professional life, he had won his first drawing prize for an international chocolate company his prize was a cuddly lil...
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Anthony McGowan
Anthony Mcgowan was born in Manchester and was the second of what were to be five children. He now lives in London with his wife, author and fashion designer Rebecca Campbell, and their two young children. Both Anthony's parents were nurses and hoped that he would become a doctor. Howev...
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Anthony Browne
Anthony Brown has won many prizes for his work, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Kurt Maschler Award (three times). In 2000 he received the highest international honour for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first...
