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Mitchell Symons
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game T...
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Moira Young
Moira was born in New Westminster, BC, on the west coast of Canada, to a business man father and a primary teacher mother. She has two younger sisters and all her immediate and extended family live in the Vancouver area. She also travelled to Europe as a child and lived in Scotland for a perio...
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Morag Hood
Morag Hood is a children's author and illustrator from Edinburgh. Morag spent her childhood writing stories, painting, and dreaming of having a pet duck. Following a degree in Costume Design from Wimbledon College of Art, and an MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge Scho...
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Muhammad Khan
Muhammad Khan is an engineer, a secondary-school maths teacher, and now a YA author! He lives in South London and is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at St Mary's. Muhammad takes his inspiration from the children he teaches, as well as his own upbringing as a British-born Pakistani....
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Narinder Dhami
Narinder was born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Cambridgeshire. After obtaining an English degree from Birmingham University, she did a PGCE course and began teaching in the early 1980s. She worked as a primary school teacher for ten years, but for the last nine years she has been a full-t...
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Natasha Carthew
Natasha Carthew is a working-class country writer from Cornwall. She has written all her books outside, either in the fields and woodland that surround her home or in the cabin that she built from scrap wood. She has written two books of poetry, as well as three novels for young adults; Winter...
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire in the UK to Jewish parents of Polish descent. He now lives in the United States in Minneapolis. As a child he loved books, reading and stories, especially the Narnia books, Roger Lancelyn Green, Dracula, and GK Chesterton. His career began in journalis...
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Nellie Shepherd
Nellie Shepherd is an actress and artist with a mission to inspire children and their carers to create art together. She has immense hands-on experience of making art with youngchildren. She started teaching one child in her own kitchen, and ten years later she has taught more than 10,00...
