Authors

  • Sally Gardner

    Sally Gardner

    Sally Gardner trained at art college and went on to work in the theatre, winning awards for her costume designs for some notable productions. After her twin daughters and her son were born she started to illustrate children's books, and then turned to writing. She lives in Nor...

  • Levi Pinfold

    Levi Pinfold

    Levi Pinfold is the author and illustrator of a number of books for children. The Django (2010) won the Booktrust Best Emerging Illustrator Award and was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal. His second book, Black Dog, was also shortlisted...

  • David Litchfield

    David Litchfield

    DAVID LITCHFIELD first started to draw when he was very young, creating Star Wars and Indiana Jones 'mash up' comics for his older brother and sister. His first picture book, The Bear and the Piano, won the Waterstones...

  • Frank Beddor

    Frank Beddor

    Frank Beddor is a man of many talents and his careers have included professional skiing (two-time freestyle world champion), acting (appearing opposite Carrie Fisher in Amazon Women on the Moon) and film making (he produced the 1998 hit 'There's Something About Mary') before he decided to beco...

  • Fiona Woodcock

    Fiona Woodcock

    Fiona Woodcock grew up in Leicester and always wanted to draw. Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art she has been working freelance in London on animated films, commercials and illustration work. She likes to draw with a tipp-ex mouse, children's blow pens, cutting stencils and pr...

  • Frances Hardinge

    Frances Hardinge

    Frances Hardinge says that she and her sister were "lucky enough to be brought up in an environment infested with books". Even when scarcely crawling, their mother would prop up little cloth books for the girls to look at. "I can't remember a time when I wasn't reading, and trying to write," s...

  • Frank Cottrell-Boyce

    Frank Cottrell-Boyce

    Frank Cottrell Boyce, father of seven, is an established British screenwriter whose film credits include WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, HILARY AND JACKIE and 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE. He lives in Merseyside with his family. Frank's first book, Millions, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2004 and was shortlist...

  • Gabrielle Lord

    Gabrielle Lord

    Gabrielle Lord is one of Australia's bestselling crime writers for adults. Following the Conspiracy 365 series, she already has plans for another three adult novels and two more young adult books. Research is everything, Gabrielle says. 'Out of my contacts with experts (who are always fa...