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  • Liz Pichon

    Liz Pichon

    Liz Pichon studied graphic design at Middlesex Polytechnic and Camberwell School of Art in London. She then worked in the music industry for Jive records as a designer and art director, organising photo sessions and designing record and CD covers. After deciding to go freelance, her wor...

  • Lizzy Stewart

    Lizzy Stewart

    Illustrator and artist Lizzy Stewart graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009, and received an MA in Communication Design from Central St Martins in 2013. She is also one half of independent publishers Sing Statistics and an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths College. Her fi...

  • Lorraine Gregory

    Lorraine Gregory

    Raised by an Austrian mother and Indian father on a concrete council estate in East London, Lorraine spent most of her childhood escaping into the imaginary worlds of books by Dahl, Lindgren and Blyton, or creating her own sprawling, adventuresome stories. Her dreams of becoming a write...

  • Louis Nowra

    Louis Nowra

    Louis Nowra is a critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning writer of plays, film and tv scripts, non-fiction, memoir and fiction. He was born in Melbourne and lives in Sydney with his wife, Mandy Sayer, also a writer, and their Chihuahua, Coco, and Miniature Pinscher, Basil.

  • Louise Rennison

    Louise Rennison

    Louise Rennison lives in Brighton, a place that she likes to think of as the San Francisco of the South Coast. Which is sad as it is nothing like San Francisco, being mainly pebbles and large people in tiny swimming knickers who have gone bright red in the sun. Although she lives in Brighton i...

  • Louise Yates

    Louise Yates

    Louise Yates writes and illustrates children's books. Her first book A SMALL SURPRISE, was published by Random House in 2009. DOG LOVES BOOKS followed in 2010, debuted as a New York Times bestseller and went on to win the Parents' Choice Award in the US. In the UK, Dog Loves Book...

  • Lucy Adlington

    Lucy Adlington

    Lucy Adlington is a writer, actress and costume historian. Her novels for teenagers, written under the name LJ Adlington and including The Diary of Pelly-D and Burning Mountain, have been nominated and/or shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Manchester Book Prize, the Leeds Book Prize...

  • Lucy Hawking

    Lucy Hawking

    Lucy Hawking is a journalist and author. She studied Modern Languages at Oxford University before going on to complete a years training in International Journalism at City University, London. She has written for many national newspapers in the UK as well as New York Magazine in the USA. <p...