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  • Annie Dalton

    Annie Dalton

    Annie Dalton was born in Dorset and grew up in the country during the fifties. She claims she didn't intend to be a writer when she was young, but the discovery of a local library nourished her love of books from an early age. Annie studied at Warwick University and soon began to write....

  • Anne Fine

    Anne Fine

    Originally from Leicester, Anne Fine read Politics and History at Warwick University before training to be a teacher. She has also worked as an Information Officer for the charity Oxfam, and has two grown-up daughters. Anne Fine's work is characterised by humour and her extraordinary in...

  • Annabel Pitcher

    Annabel Pitcher

    Annabel Pitcher is an author and script writer from Yorkshire. She studied English at Oxford University before training as a teacher. She taught English at a local secondary school before being inspired to write. While on a round the world trip, she wrote her first novel, My Sister Live...

  • Annabel Karmel

    Annabel Karmel

    Annabel Karmel has been described as the 'Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver and Delia Smith of the nursery food world'. A trained Cordon Bleu cook, ANNABEL KARMEL is a leading author on cooking for toddlers and babies and has written several best-selling books on the subject. Her first book...

  • Ann Turnbull

    Ann Turnbull

    Ann Turnbull's first novel was published in 1974 and since then she has written over 30 books for children and young people of all ages. Her novels include 'Deep Water', 'A Long Way Home' and 'Pigeon Summer', which was was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling...

  • Ann M Martin

    Ann M Martin

    Ann M. Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. Her father was the great cartoonist Henry Martin. After graduating from Smith College, Martin became a teacher and then an editor of children's books; she is now a full-time writer. She is well...

  • Anita Ganeri was born in Calcutta, India, but attended both primary and secondary school in England. Anita has had more than 100 books published and has spent many years working for publishers both as an editor and as a foreign rights manager. Anita lives in West Yorkshire with her husb...

  • Angie Sage

    Angie Sage

    Angie Sage was born in London and grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent. She went to school in Tonbridge and to Art School in Leicester where she did a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design and Illustration. When she left college she started illustrating books and then progressed to writi...