Authors Schools & Libraries
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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...
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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.
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Judi Curtin
Judi Curtin is Ireland's favourite children's writer. She is the best-selling author of the Alice and Megan series which has sold rights to Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, Lithuania and Serbia. The series has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. She is the author of the Eva series, also...
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Judith Heneghan
Judith Heneghan loved reading even as a child, and has always wanted to be a writer. She achieved Distinction for her MA in Writing for Children in Winchester, and has been a book editor. STONECIPHER is her first published title. She is married to a journalist, and they have four children. The...
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Judith Kerr
JUDITH KERR was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin, and escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933, when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family lived in Switzerland and France...
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Julia Bertagna
Julie Bertagna was born in Ayrshire, but grew up near Glasgow. Her first published fiction was while she was still at school she wrote rave reviews of her brother's rock band for the local paper, which was pure fiction, as the band were terrible! After completing an MA Honours degree in Englis...
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Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson started her career writing songs for children's television. In 1993, one of her songs was made into a book, A Squash and a Squeeze. Julia is a frequent visitor to Scottish schools and libraries, where she talks, acts and sings with her audiences. For three years s...
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Julia Gray
Julia Gray is a writer and singer-songwriter. Her debut book The Otherlife was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award and nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and her second book, Little Liar, was shortlisted for CrimeFest's Best Crime Novel for Young Adults 2019. Julia studied Classics a...
