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Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick was a full time author who died unexpectedly in November 2022. He was 54. He grew up in Kent and had been living in the south of France. Marcus's first novel, Floodland, won the Branford Boase Award for the Best Debut Children's Novel of 2000 and he went on to write mor...
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Namina Forna
Namina Forna was born in Sierra Leone but emigrated with her family to the US in the 1990s, and has been travelling back and forth ever since.Namina has a MFA in film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA from Spelman...
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Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature, having won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for his acclaimed novel Junk, whose 25th Anniversary edition has just been published by Andersen Press, together...
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Raymond Briggs
Born in Wimbledon in 1934, Raymond showed interest in cartooning from an early age and studied at the Wimbledon School of Art and later at the Slade School of Fine Art. He briefly pursued painting before becoming a professional illustrator, working in advertising and going on to win acclaim as...
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Polly Faber
Polly Faber's new picture book, Special Delivery: A Book's Journey Around the World, charts the progress of a book on its long journey from China to a bookshop. Polly Faber's grandfather set up the publishing house Faber & Faber so...
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Phil Earle
Phil Earle's new book, While the Storm Rages, is set in London during WWII, and follows Noah on his journey to save the neighbourhood's pets. Phil grew up in Hull and has had a number of jobs including working in pubs and travel agencies, and as a care worker in a residential kids home....
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Shelina Janmohamed
Shelina Janmohamed's BeYOUtiful guides us through the idea of beauty and who decides what is beautiful, reminding us that it is up to us to choose to be 'beYoutiful'. As the vice president of advertising agency Ogilvy, Shelina sees first hand how ideas of womanhood, beauty and image are...
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Christine Pillainayagam
Christine Pillainayagam's debut book, Ellie Pillai is Brown, is a coming-of-age high school romantic comedy about identity, representation and falling in love. Christine a is a writer and retail strategist, who lives in North London with her young family and a collecti...
