Authors

  • Beverley Birch

    Beverley Birch

    Beverley Birch spent her childhood roaming vast plains and deep forests near her home in East Africa, dreaming of becoming an intrepid explorer in fantastic, far-away places. Instead she became a writer, and explores people and places through her books. She travels widely, and says, "Wh...

  • Bethany Christou

    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...

  • Bernard Ashley

    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...

  • Berlie Doherty

    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...

  • Benji Davies

    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...

  • Ben Newman

    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...

  • Ben Jeapes

    Ben Jeapes

    Ben Jeapes believes that he was overexposed in early childhood to Dr Who, Thunderbirds and Star Trek and that this is what set him on the science fiction trail. The discovery that it came in written form was the icing on the cake for Ben and he started writing his own stories at the age of 18....

  • Ben Brooks

    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.