Authors Schools & Libraries
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Julia Lee
Julia Lee has been making up stories for as long as she can remember. She wrote her first book aged 5, mainly so that she could do all the illustrations with a brand-new 4-colour pen, and her mum stitched the pages together on her sewing machine. As a child she was ill quite a bit, which meant...
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Julian Sedgwick
I was born in East Kent in 1966 and wanted to become a writer for as long as I can remember. At Cambridge University I studied Chinese and Philosophy. I have always written since then, but took a long detour - working as a bookseller, painter, therapist, researcher for film and TV - before mov...
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Julie Hearn
Julie started her working life as a journalist. She wrote for a daily tabloid newspaper in Australia before returning to England and working as a features editor and 'mother and baby' columnist. After her daughter Tilly was born, she started to train as a teacher at Westminster College, Oxford...
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Julie Mayhew
Julie Mayhew trained as an actress and a journalist and has written extensively for the national press. Other jobs she has done include modelling for Rankin, reading the traffic and travel news for Chris Evans and she once worked in a prison. Her debut novel, Red Ink, was published by H...
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Juno Dawson
Juno Dawson grew up in West Yorkshire and now lives in Brighton. She has worked previously as a teacher, specialising in PSHCE and behaviour, and as a journalist, interviewing bands including Atomic Kitten and Steps and writing a weekly serial for a Brighton newspaper. She contributes r...
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Justin Fisher
Justin Fisher has been a designer, illustrator and animator for both film and television. He has designed title sequences for several Hollywood film - from X-Men 2 to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - branded music TV channels and has worked extensively in advertising. But after many years o...
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Justine Windsor
Justine Windsor is a debut author but has been shortlisted for writing awards including the Times/Chicken House children's writers prize and the youwriteone.com Children's Book of the Year. She lives and works in London. Goodly and Grave in a Bad Case of Kidnap was her first published book.
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Kai Meyer
Kai Meyer is one of the most successful writers in Germany. Having studied film and drama, he worked as a journalist before devoting himself to full time writing. His two fantasy trilogies for children, both to be published by Egmont, appeared on adult and children's bestseller lists in German...
