Authors Schools & Libraries
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Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman is a prolific and prize-winning author who has written more than 80 books for children. Amazing Grace, her first book for Frances Lincoln, remains one of her most popular titles. It has sold over 1.5 million copies and was commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal and selected for th...
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Mary Hooper
Mary Hooper has been writing professionally for over twenty years. She started by writing short stories and serials for teenage and women's magazines when her children were small. Having done a few hundred, and thinking it would be good to see something more permanent on the shelves, she wrote...
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Matilda Woods
Matilda Woods was born in 1989 and has been writing stories for the last seven years. She grew up in a small town near Canberra, Australia where she still lives today. She currently splits her time between writing middle grade fiction and working as a youth worker. When she was younger she lov...
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Matt Dickinson
Matt Dickinson is a writer and film maker with an enduring (and occasionally dangerous) fascination for people who push the limits. As a film maker he has worked extensively for National Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel and the BBC and is one of the very few director/cameram...
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Matt Haig
Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1975. Since then he has lived in Nottinghamshire, Ibiza and London. He studied English and History at Hull University and then did an MA at Leeds. He now lives in Brighton with the writer Andrea Semple and their two children.
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Matt Killeen
Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham and, like many of his generation, was absorbed by tales of the war and obsessed with football from an early age. After careers in advertising as a copywriter and in music and sports journalism, he completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Manc...
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Matt Oldfield
Matt Oldfield is one half of Matt and Tom Oldfield, the brothers behind the Heroes Football book series for children aged 7-12 years old. Their fun biographies tell the life stories of the world's greatest footballers including Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez and Wayne Rooney. Matt also works...
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Matt Robertson
Matt Robertson grew up in Suffolk, and spent most of his childhood drawing and creating characters. He completed his MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2014, receiving a Distinction for his work. Matt was the winner of a Lara Jones Award and received second...
