Authors
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Philip Womack
Philip Womack was educated at Lancing and Oriel College, Oxford, and is a Contributing Editor at the Literary Review, and writes for the Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian, among other papers. He is also a Fellow at First Story, currently being Writer in Residence at St Augustine's in Kilburn....
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Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory studied at Sussex university, and is a PhD and Alumna of the Year 2009 of Edinburgh university. She was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl which was made into a tv drama, and...
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Philippa Pearce
Philippa Pearce was the youngest of four children of a flour-miller. The family lived in the Mill House on the upper reaches of the River Cam. 'Although there wasn't much cash we had lots of space,' remembers Philippa, 'We had a canoe, we swam, we fished with net and with rod, we skated on flo...
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Philippe Dupasquier
was born in Switzerland and studied art in France. His French background and training have influenced his own art form, the high quality comic strip, which is very popular on the Continent and formed the bulk of his reading as a child.
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Piers Torday
Piers Torday began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards. His second book,...
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Duncan McCoshan (Knife), creates books alongside Jem Packer. Together they are a creative team who bring a distinctive humour, style and and imagination to both fiction and non-fiction. Their popular cartoon strip 'It's Grim up North London' first appeared in Private Eye in 1999 and they make...
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Dugald Steer
Dugald Steer was born in 1965 and lives in Surrey. His love of books and reading led him to study English Literature and Philosophy at Bristol University where he was an avid contributor to the Poetry Society Magazine. After stints working for Friends of the Earth and the Duchy of Lanca...
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Dr Tracy Packiam Alloway
Dr Tracy Alloway is a TEDx speaker, psychologist, and author of 13 books. Her most recent books in the SEN Superpower series (published by QED) celebrate Memory Superpowers in children with Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD, and Anxiety.Several media outlets have talked about it as "creating...
