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  • Graham Marks

    Graham Marks

    Graham is an ex-graphic designer-turned author. When he's not writing teen/YA novels for Bloomsbury and younger fiction for Usborne, he is Children's Books Editor for the -trade paper Publishing News. In this capacity, he has interviewed just about every major publisher, author and illustrator...

  • Greg Howard

    Greg Howard

    Greg Howard grew up near the coast of South Carolina. His hometown of Georgetown is known as the "Ghost Capital of the South" (seriously...there's a sign), and was always a great source of material for his overactive imagination. Raised in a staunchly religious home, Greg escaped into the arts...

  • Griselda Gifford

    Griselda Gifford

    Griselda Gifford has had over 20 books for children published and has also written short stories for adults. She has run writing workshops for children and adults and now teaches Creative Writing at an Adult Education Centre. She exhibits and sells her paintings locally and belongs to a photog...

  • Gus Clark

    Gus Clark

    Gus Clarke was born and brought up in Suffolk. He studied at Edinburgh and Kingston Schools of Art and he has been involved in design and illustrations for print and television. He has produced many successful books for Andersen Press. He has two sons.

  • Guy Parker-Rees

    Guy Parker-Rees

    Guy Parker-Rees, illustrator of the bestselling Giraffes Can't Dance, was born in Zimbabwe and moved to England with his sister and two brothers when he was three. He went on to do a degree in English and Philosophy at York University, where he also spent a lot of time painting and doodling. H...

  • Gwyneth Rees

    Gwyneth Rees

    Gwyneth Rees is half Welsh and half English and grew up in Scotland. She was born in Leicester in 1968, moved to Hastings in 1970, and then on to Glasgow in 1974 where she remained and later studied Medicine at Glasgow Medical School. In 1992 she moved to Birmingham and specialised in Psychiat...

  • H.M Castor

    H.M Castor

    H. M. Castor has been obsessed with the Tudors since primary school. She studied Tudor History at Cambridge University and, despite spending time after that doing a variety of jobs including teaching English in Prague and working as a Benesh Movement Notator for the Royal Ballet the Tudors hav...

  • Harriet Goodwin

    Harriet Goodwin

    Harriet Goodwin read medieval English at Oxford University before training as a professional singer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She sang and toured with a number of internationally acclaimed ensembles before the birth of her four children, but now concentrates on orat...