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Jeff Povey
Author Jeff Povey is an award-winning screenwriter. As well as several original TV dramas and feature films he has also written over 150 episodes of Eastenders and for Casualty, Holby, Grange Hill and Silent Witness as well as co-creating the recent By Any Means. Shift is his debut teen novel....
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Jem Packer
Jem Packer creates books with his other creative half, Duncan McCoshan (Knife). Together they are a creative team who bring a distinctive humour, style and and imagination to both fiction and non-fiction. Their popular cartoon strip 'It's Grim up North London' first appeared in Private Eye in...
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Jenn Bennett
Jenn Bennett is an artist and author who writes books for adults and teens. Born in Germany, she's lived and travelled extensively throughout Europe, the US, and the Far East. She currently lives near Atlanta with one husband and two evil pugs. Jenn Bennett's debut, the beautiful Night Owls, s...
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Jenni Desmond
Jenni is a picture book author and illustrator based in Hackney, London. Her first book Red Cat Blue Cat was published in 2012 and won the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award. She was the 2014 illustrator for the National Portrait Gallery Family Trail, and won Junior Magazine best emerging talen...
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Jennifer Mathieu
Jennifer Mathieu was born on the East Coast of America, to a Cuban mother and Chilean father. Jennifer teaches English to middle and high schoolers in Texas, where she now lives with her husband, son and rescue dog. She used to make her own zine, and wrote about all her favourite things in Mox...
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Jenny Nimmo
Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor and grew up on a free-range poultry farm on the Berkshire/Surrey border. She now lives in a converted watermill in Wales, where she has lived for 26 years. She has tried to learn Welsh and while she is not fluent in Welsh, her three children are. Her husband, Da...
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Jenny Smith
Jenny Smith currently lives in South Oxfordshire with her husband and two young sons, and a small and aggressive West Highland terrier called Angus. She was born and brought up in Glasgow where she went on to study English Literature and Psychology at University. In her early twenties,...
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Jeremy Strong
Jeremy Strong was born in Eltham, South East London, on November 18th 1949. He lives in Somerset and is a full-time writer, however previous jobs include: Head Teacher, Teacher, Caretaker, Strawberry Picker and Jam Doughnut Stuffer (yes, really!) His first book, 'Smith's Tail', was published i...
