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Steven Butler
Steven Butler is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, performer and voice artist. His books have won the coveted Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Alligator's Mouth Award and the Lollies. Steven grew up in Kent, b...
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Linda Chapman
Linda Chapman's new series for young readers, Magic Keepers, takes us to a house filled with curios - and a magical secret! Before before becoming a full-time writer, Linda Chapman had many jobs including being a teacher, stage manager, book-seller, university researcher and dog trainer. She...
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Kieran Larwood
The Treekeepers is the latest book by Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and it's an action-packed fantasy with a strong environmental message. Kieran was born in Kenya. He moved to the UK when he was two and lived in various places before set...
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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England and Zimbabwe and making up stories to entertain her younger sisters and brother. After studying English Literature at University College London, she worked for several y...
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Jasbinder Bilan
Jasbinder Bilan's debut novel Asha and the Spirit Bird won the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award and The Times Chickenhouse Fiction Prize. Jasbinder studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and now lives near Bath, in England, with her husband, two so...
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Laurel van der Linde
Author Laurel van der Linde began ballet class at age four. At 17, she toured with Oukhtomsky Ballet Classique and Los Angeles Ballet. She loved dancing en pointe, but her feet did not. So she traded her pointe shoes for character heels and danced on Broadway in My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Se...
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Eve McDonnell
Eve is a children's author and artist who lives in the wilds of Co Wexford with her husband, twins, a dog and three cats. She studied at the NCAD in Dublin before embarking on a career in graphic design and brand development and then decided to write. Eve's debut novel for children, Elsetime,...
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Alastair Chisholm - Young Fiction
Alastair Chisholm's Dragon Storm (Nosy Crow Books) is an adventure-packed new series for younger readers. As well as writing books for children, Adam is a puzzle creator and has written quite a lot of books of Sudoku and other puzzles for kids and grown-ups. He lives...
