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Helen Bailey
Helen Bailey was born and brought up in Northumberland, a county she still regards as home. Barely into her teens, Helen invested her pocket money in buying a copy of The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook and spent the next few years sending short stories and poems to anyone she could think of. M...
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Helen Craig
Helen Craig is the joint creator, with Katharine Holabird, of the enduringly popular ANGELINA BALLERINA books. With a new TV series, ANGELINA is set to pirouette to even greater levels of fame. Helen Craig was born in London but moved, with her family, to the country just ahead of the o...
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Helen Creswell
Helen started writing at the age of six. At that time her primary interest was poetry. As well as being the author of many critically acclaimed novels, she has written many television scripts, including Five Children and It, Lizzie Dripping, The Demon Headmaster, and The Phoenix and the Carpet...
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Helen Dunmore
HELEN DUNMORE is an award-winning novelist and poet as well as a children's writer. She has published eight collections of poetry, and has written eight novels and two collections of short stories. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and her most recent novel, The Siege, was shortlisted...
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Helen Hancocks
Helen Hancocks graduated in 2011 with a degree in illustration and animation from Manchester School of Art. Her work often features cats. When she is not drawing, she can be found at the cinema, or just watching the world go by. Helen Hancocks lives in Lincoln, England.
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Helen Hobden
Helen Hobden lives in Tonbridge. She is interested in photography and art, as well as music festivals (which feature in this story), and she does kickboxing and surfing. She says she also does skateboarding, but only when no-one is looking! She has been writing since she was very small, and st...
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Helena Duggan
Helena Duggan is a children's author, graphic designer and illustrator from Kilkenny, a medieval town in Ireland, which was the inspiration for A Place Called Perfect. Lately, a lot of new things have happened in her life. She got a puppy - he limped out in front of her car one morning...
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Helena Pielchaty
Helena Pielichaty was born in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to England when she was five. Her writing career started at the age of eleven when the Yorkshire Post published her poem, Litter, hailed, as Helena puts it, 'as a literary triumph by my grandma.' Helena's writing career was then...
