Authors Schools & Libraries
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Alan MacDonald
Alan MacDonald was born in Watford and was going to be a professional footballer until he won a pen in a handwriting competition at school. He has written over a hundred books for children and won several awards. Among his books are the best-selling Dirty Bertie series with illustrator...
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Alex Woolf
Alex Woolf is a published author of over eighty books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for young adults. His fiction writing credits include a time-warping science fiction trilogy, Chronosphere, and Aldo Moon and the Case of the Ghost at Gravewood Hall, about a teenage Victorian gh...
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Alexander Gordon Smith
Alexander Gordon Smith, 32, is best known as the author of the Escape From Furnace Series, made up of Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives and Execution. He also wrote The Inventors which was runner-up in the national Wow Factor Award and The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls, bo...
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Alan Snow
Alan Snow is an English artist, working with books, animation, film and computers. He has written and illustrated over 160 books for children, including How Dogs Really Work, The Truth About Cats, and How Santa Really Works. He has also worked on a very diverse range of other projects, includi...
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Fiona Waters
Once upon a time long, long ago, Fiona Waters was born in Edinburgh and she has had her nose in a book ever since. When she was about seven she heard Gabriel Woolf reading The Lady of Shalott on the radio and, from that moment, she was hooked on poetry forever. Fiona has worked with chi...
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Fiona Higgins
F. E. Higgins was born in England but raised in Ireland. She trained and worked as a primary school teacher before turning to writing. She now lives and writes in a house that dates back to the fifteenth century, in a small village in rural Kent. THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS is her debut, and she...
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Faye Bird
Faye Bird lives in London with her family. She studied Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University and always wanted to be a writer, but wasn't brave enough initially to try. In 2012, she decided to be brave and commit seriously to her writing. My secret Lies With You is Faye's thir...
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Fabi Santiago
Fabi Santiago was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has been making pictures ever since she could hold her first crayon. After studying art and design, Fabi went travelling and came across the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, from where she graduated in 2014...
