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Jess Kidd
Jess Kidd wanted to be a writer before she could even write. She comes from a big, noisy (and nosy) family where storytelling was a favourite pastime. Jess was quite shy when she was little so she learnt to write down the stories she imagined. Then sh...
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Charlie P Brooks
Charlie Brooks left Eton to become a stable lad for racing legend Fred Winter. After riding in the Grand National, and winning the Cheltenham Festival as an amateur jockey, he became the youngest racehorse trainer in England. He has broadcast for Radio Five and Bloomberg TV and hosted h...
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Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison is an award-winning novelist and nature writer. Her books have won the European Union Prize for Literature, been shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and the Wome...
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Tim Tilley
Tim Tilley grew up on the outskirts of Leicester, and studied Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University and Central Saint Martins. He works as a freelance illustrator for editorial and design clients and teaches children's book illustration at City Lit in London. <p style="font-weight: 400;...
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Julia Golding
Julia Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. After reading English at Cambridge, she joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.<...
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Jenny Pearson
Jenny Pearson is a primary school teacher based in north east England. She loves her job and her debut book, The Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates, about a group of three boys on a make-or-break adventure, draws on many of the children she has taught. Jenny also loves swimming - she w...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes grew up in Pennsylvania. She is an author of adult and children's books, a Coretta Scott King Honour award-winner, and a professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She currently lives in San Jose in the US.
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Elizabeth Laird
Elizabeth Laird was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but is of Scottish descent and was educated at Croydon High School. She spent a year teaching in Malaysia, before studying languages at Bristol and Edinburgh universities. Liz has spent much of her life living and working abroad, incl...
