Authors Teenagers

  • David Solomons

    David Solomons

    A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is David Solomon's sixth novel for children and follows his bestselling My Brother is a Superhero series.  Before writing for children, he wrote screenplays for many years and his first feature film was an adaptation of 'Five Child...

  • Jonathan Tulloch

    Jonathan Tulloch

    Cuckoo Summer, a wartime story about evacuation and the effects of war, is Jonathan Tulloch's first book for children. It was inspired by stories heard from family members in Cumbria who had had evacuees to stay during the war years. Jonathan is also the author of eight novels...

  • Hana Tooke

    Hana Tooke

    Hana Tooke's new novel, The Midnighters, follows a group of children as they explore and discover new skills, at midnight. Hana was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, in 1985 and moved to England in the late 1990s. She now lives in Bath with a big human, a little human, and an even littler c...

  • Alex Cotter

    Alex Cotter

    Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at W.H.Smith and publicising The Booker Prize to copywriting and teaching creative writing. Alex lives near Bath in an ancient house, with cobwebs, creaky floorboards, one husband, two c...

  • Michelle Harrison

    Michelle Harrison

    ReadingZone caught up with author Michelle Harrison to talk about black cats, magic and mischief in her fun series for younger readers, Midnight Magic Michelle worked as an editorial assistant in children's publishing and as a bookseller at Waterstones before becoming a full time writer...

  • Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i, a cancer columnist for the Pool, a sometime journalist for lots of places (Guardian, Observer, Prospect, Grazia, Stylist), a poet and a ca...

  • Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger

    Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i, a cancer columnist for the Pool, a sometime journalist for lots of places (Guardian, Observer, Prospect, Grazia, Stylist), a...

  • Anna James

    Anna James

    Anna James takes us back to the world of Pages & Co in her new book, Pages & Co: The Treehouse Library, the fifth book in the series, published by HarperCollins Children's Books.  Anna James was previously book news editor at The Bookseller magazine and literary editor of Elle U...