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  • Michelle Harrison

    Michelle Harrison

    ReadingZone caught up with author Michelle Harrison to talk about black cats, magic and mischief in her fun series for younger readers, Midnight Magic Michelle worked as an editorial assistant in children's publishing and as a bookseller at Waterstones before becoming a full time writer...

  • Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i, a cancer columnist for the Pool, a sometime journalist for lots of places (Guardian, Observer, Prospect, Grazia, Stylist), a poet and a ca...

  • Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i, a cancer columnist for the Pool, a sometime journalist for lots of places (Guardian, Observer, Prospect, Grazia, Stylist), a...

  • Louie Stowell

    Louie Stowell

    Louie Stowell's series, Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good, brings trickster god Loki to Earth when he is tasked by Odin to learn how to be a better person - and it's not going well. In Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame, there are lots more things to learn about b...

  • Anna James

    Anna James

    Anna James takes us back to the world of Pages & Co in her new book, Pages & Co: The Treehouse Library, the fifth book in the series, published by HarperCollins Children's Books.  Anna James was previously book news editor at The Bookseller magazine and literary editor of Elle U...

  • Janelle McCurdy

    Janelle McCurdy

    Janelle is an author and fully-fledged gamer and Mia and the Lightcasters is her debut novel. She started writing at only 16 years old and, after completing her degree in Criminology and Sociology, she moved back home to London and began writing middle grade fantasy.  Her prize-winning story,...

  • Lou Peacock

    Lou Peacock

    An editor, poetry anthologist and writer with over 25 years of experience in children's publishing, Lou Peacock is lucky enough to have one of the best jobs in the world: Head of Picture Books at Nosy Crow. Her picture books have been translated into nearly 20 languages. She l...

  • Anna Kemp

    Anna Kemp

    Into Goblyn Wood is a richly imagined world of fairies with a dark and sinister threat, and is Anna Kemp's first novel for children. She also writes picture books and her work has been adapted for television (Bookaboo, CBeebies), puppetry (Little Angel), dance (Ballet Black) and theatre (New W...