Authors

  • Gus Clark

    Gus Clark

    Gus Clarke was born and brought up in Suffolk. He studied at Edinburgh and Kingston Schools of Art and he has been involved in design and illustrations for print and television. He has produced many successful books for Andersen Press. He has two sons.

  • Guy Parker-Rees

    Guy Parker-Rees

    Guy Parker-Rees, illustrator of the bestselling Giraffes Can't Dance, was born in Zimbabwe and moved to England with his sister and two brothers when he was three. He went on to do a degree in English and Philosophy at York University, where he also spent a lot of time painting and doodling. H...

  • Gwyneth Rees

    Gwyneth Rees

    Gwyneth Rees is half Welsh and half English and grew up in Scotland. She was born in Leicester in 1968, moved to Hastings in 1970, and then on to Glasgow in 1974 where she remained and later studied Medicine at Glasgow Medical School. In 1992 she moved to Birmingham and specialised in Psychiat...

  • H.M Castor

    H.M Castor

    H. M. Castor has been obsessed with the Tudors since primary school. She studied Tudor History at Cambridge University and, despite spending time after that doing a variety of jobs including teaching English in Prague and working as a Benesh Movement Notator for the Royal Ballet the Tudors hav...

  • Harriet Goodwin

    Harriet Goodwin

    Harriet Goodwin read medieval English at Oxford University before training as a professional singer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She sang and toured with a number of internationally acclaimed ensembles before the birth of her four children, but now concentrates on orat...

  • Harriet Reuter Hapgood

    Harriet Reuter Hapgood

    Harriet Reuter Hapgood is a freelance journalist living in Brighton who has worked with the Independent, Marie Claire, ELLE and InStyle in the UK. Her debut YA novel The Square Root of Summer was inspired by her German mathematician grandfather and her lifelong obsession with YA romance...

  • Harriet Whitehorn

    Harriet Whitehorn

    Harriet Whitehorn is the author of the VIOLET books, a middle-grade detective series from Simon and Schuster. Titles include VIOLET AND THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT, and VIOLET AND THE SMUGGLERS. The books have been nominated for several awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and t...

  • Hayley Scott

    Hayley Scott

    Hayley has always loved stories. She grew up near Watership Down, and one of her favourite things to do was visit the big hill to watch the rabbits hopping in and out of their burrows. She's always loved really small things too. When she was little she used to make tiny furniture for fairy hou...