Authors Teenagers
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a close-up look at the world of sharks. Nick Crumpton grew up on a diet of David Attenborough documentaries, studied ecology at Leeds University, a...
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Hayley Webster
Hayley Webster writes stories about how people try to make sense of the world around them, when it so often doesn't make sense. Her first ever job was in a fish and chip shop, and since then she's worked in magazines and as a teacher in secondary and primary schools, and now she writes and edi...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children caught up in its theft. Judith is also the author of The Secret Starling, The Pear Affair and The Accidental Stowaway. Her career thus far has i...
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Tania Unsworth
Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent her childhood in Cambridge before moving to America in her early twenties. She comes from a literary, Booker Prize-winning family of writers and lives in Boston, USA, with...
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Sufiya Ahmed
Sufiya Ahmed worked in advertising and in the House of Commons before becoming a full-time author. In 2010 she set up the BIBI Foundation, which arranges visits to the Houses of Parliament for children from underprivileged backgrounds. Sufiya has written several children's books including My S...
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AM Howell
A.M. Howell has always been inspired by the stories around her, and how imagination can unlock the secrets of the past. Her new series, Mysteries at Sea, is inspired by her own childhood travels on ships. Her thrilling historical mysteries have garnered great critical acclaim, winning b...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spying and the latest book, A Sprinkling of Danger, by author Sarah Todd Taylor. Sarah was brought up in Yorkshire and Wales surrounded by boo...
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Hiba Noor Khan & Salini Perera
Hiba Noor Khan is a double-Masters holder who has worked in refugee advocacy for The Children's Society, as a physics teacher and as a TV presenter. In 2019, she was commissioned to write Malala as part of the Extraordinary Lives Series. She has also written for the Independen...
