Authors

  • Hazel Marshall

    Hazel Marshall

    Hazel Marshall was born in Scotland and has lived there most of her life. Troublesome Angels and Flying Machines was inspired by her love of the Medieval Period where 'invention was a matter of fascination for people. They were constantly questioning how things worked, how they came to be inve...

  • Hazel Townson

    Hazel Townson

    Hazel Townson was formerly Chief Assistant Librarian in charge of work with young people in Bury, Lancashire. She now devotes her time to writing and for years has been going into schools and libraries to talk to children about writing. She has chaired the Lancashire Children's Book Award for...

  • Helen Bailey

    Helen Bailey

    Helen Bailey was born and brought up in Northumberland, a county she still regards as home. Barely into her teens, Helen invested her pocket money in buying a copy of The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook and spent the next few years sending short stories and poems to anyone she could think of. M...

  • Helen Craig

    Helen Craig

    Helen Craig is the joint creator, with Katharine Holabird, of the enduringly popular ANGELINA BALLERINA books. With a new TV series, ANGELINA is set to pirouette to even greater levels of fame. Helen Craig was born in London but moved, with her family, to the country just ahead of the o...

  • Helen Creswell

    Helen Creswell

    Helen started writing at the age of six. At that time her primary interest was poetry. As well as being the author of many critically acclaimed novels, she has written many television scripts, including Five Children and It, Lizzie Dripping, The Demon Headmaster, and The Phoenix and the Carpet...

  • Helen Dunmore

    Helen Dunmore

    HELEN DUNMORE is an award-winning novelist and poet as well as a children's writer. She has published eight collections of poetry, and has written eight novels and two collections of short stories. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and her most recent novel, The Siege, was shortlisted...

  • Helen Hancocks

    Helen Hancocks

    Helen Hancocks graduated in 2011 with a degree in illustration and animation from Manchester School of Art. Her work often features cats. When she is not drawing, she can be found at the cinema, or just watching the world go by. Helen Hancocks lives in Lincoln, England.

  • Helen Hobden

    Helen Hobden

    Helen Hobden lives in Tonbridge. She is interested in photography and art, as well as music festivals (which feature in this story), and she does kickboxing and surfing. She says she also does skateboarding, but only when no-one is looking! She has been writing since she was very small, and st...