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  • Johnny O'Brien

    Johnny O'Brien

    Johnny O'Brien is the author of Day of the Assassins . This is his first published novel. Johnny was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. He studied History at Cambridge University. By day, Johnny is a Management Consultant and has worked with a range of...

  • Jon Mayhew

    Jon Mayhew

    Jon Mayhew's debut novel Mortlock was the most popular title in the 2011 Booked Up scheme. It was also shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and has won several regional awards. His subsequent novels The Demon Collector and The Bonehill Curse have increased Jon's fanbase and m...

  • Jonathan Emmett

    Jonathan Emmett

    Jonathan Emmett worked as an architect before beginning to write children's books ten years ago. He has since achieved international success as both a picture book author and a paper engineer.

  • Jonathan Meres

    Jonathan Meres

    Jonathan Meres was born in Nottingham, England in 1958. He left school aged 16 and joined the merchant navy as a navigating cadet, and left seven years later to become a rock star but became an ice cream van driver instead. After seeing an advertisement for actors in The Stage newspaper, he au...

  • Jorge Martin

    Jorge Martin

    Jorge Martin drew compulsively on any surface available to him as a child. Originally from Spain, he has lived in San Francisco, Mexico City, Hamburg and London. Currently dedicated to doodling and storytelling, he writes and illustrates books, runs picture book courses, and draws live at even...

  • Joseph Delaney

    Joseph Delaney

    Joseph Delaney is a retired English teacher living in Lancashire near his three children and seven grandchildren. His home is in the middle of Boggart territory and his village has a boggart called the Hall Knocker, which was laid to rest under the step of a house near the church. Most...

  • Joshua Doder

    Joshua Doder

    Joshua Doder lives in London with his wife, two dogs, three cats and a ferret called Miki. He has worked as a chef, a librarian and an actor. His hobbies include collecting Japanese pottery and climbing mountains. He is now writing a short history of pizza. He has also written adult books, had...

  • JR Wallis

    JR Wallis

    JR Wallis is a children's author who also writes YA fiction as Rupert Wallis. He teaches on the MSt in Creative Writing at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge University.