Authors Schools & Libraries
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Leyland Perree
I'm Leyland Perree, author of a number of humourous rhyming picture books suitable for children from Foundation Stage up to KS2. I live in Devon, England, and have been writing for children since 2009. My books have been distributed across the globe from Australia to Singapore, and publ...
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Lily Dyu
Lily Dyu lives in a Welsh valley. Growing up, she wanted to be a writer then an astronaut. Her favourite things are running in the mountains, camping wild and watching the night sky. Through her writing, she loves to tell true stories about people from all over the world. Maybe one day...
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Linda Buckley-Archer
Linda Buckley-Archer was born in Sussex but spent most of her childhood in rural Staffordshire, in a small village close to Litchfield which features in the novel. Linda was an avid reader and adored C. S. Lewis, Rosemary Sutcliffe and Usual Le Guin. She is a confirmed Francophile, having live...
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Linda Newbery
Linda enjoys researching her novels and besides a great deal of background reading has travelled for research purposes to Dublin, the Wicklow Mountains, Normandy, and the First World War battlefields in France and Belgium. She's also jumped out of a Cessna aeroplane at 2,000 feet, boarded a wa...
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Lindsay Kelk
Lindsey Kelk began her career as a children's book editor and is now a bestselling author and journalist, with more than fourteen books to her name, including the hugely successful I Heart series. Her novels have been published in twenty-five languages and have sold over 1.2 million cop...
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Lindsey Barraclough
Lindsey Barraclough was born in Essex. She worked as a music teacher and lives in London with her husband and their five children. Long Lankin is her first novel.
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Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay is an internationally bestselling author of 13 novels for adults, including Trust Your Eyes and No Time for Goodbye. Barclay was born in the United States but moved to Canada just before turning four years old when his father, a commercial artist, accepted a position wit...
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Lisa Heathfield
Lisa lives in Brighton with her husband and three sons. Before becoming a mum, she was a secondary school English teacher and loved inspiring teenagers to read.After teaching, she ran a cafe in Brighton for seven years. In the middle of the general chaos of her lovely children, bak...
