Authors Young Adult
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Bethany Christou
Bethany Christou is a children's illustrator and author based in the little village of Meesdon in the Hertfordshire countryside. She is a recent graduate from the Cambridge School of Art . Her picture book Slow Samson was highly commended for the Macmillan Picture Book Prize in 2016, as...
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Bernard Ashley
Bernard Ashley lives in Charlton, south east London, only a street or so from where he was born. He was educated at the Roan School, Blackheath and Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, Rochester. After his National Service in the RAF, Bernard trained to teach and specialized in...
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Berlie Doherty
Children's author Berlie Doherty was born in Liverpool in 1943. She went to school at Upton Hall Convent School and read English at the University of Durham. She has completed a postgraduate certificate in Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1966 and a postgraduate certificate in...
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Benji Davies
Benji Davies is an illustrator and animation director. From a young age he was often to be found painting at the kitchen table, a scene which can still be seen to this day. Benji studied animation at university, and has since worked on a diverse array of projects, from picture books and...
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Ben Newman
Ben Newman is an award-winning illustrator with a penchant for the bold and the bright, with vivid characters and 'Bauhaus fuzzy felt' style. Having graduated from the University of West England, Ben didn't immediately dive into the creative market. He instead spent time developing his...
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Ben Brooks
Ben Brooks is the author of the bestselling and ground-breaking Stories for Boys Who Dare To Be Different, which was the winner of Children's Book of the Year at the National Book Awards. The Impossible Boy is his first novel for children. He lives in Bulgaria.
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Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney was born and brought up in Liverpool. She went to London University, and afterwards became a journalist, writing for magazines and newspapers. She started to write the Kitty series when her own daughter Kitty was a naughty four-year-old, and asked her to write 'a proper book'. Since...
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Becca Fitzpatrick
Becca Fitzpatrick graduated with a degree in health, and went to work as a secretary, teacher, and accountant at an alternative high school in Provo. In 2003, her husband enrolled her in a writing class for her 24th birthday. It was in that class that Fitzpatrick started writing Hush, H...
