Authors

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Jacqueline Wilson

    Born in Bath, Jacqueline Wilson spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first 'novel' when she was nine, filling countless Woolworth's' exercise books as she grew up. She started work as a journalist for D.C. Thomson in Scotland where J...

  • Jakob Wegelius

    Jakob Wegelius

    Jakob Wegelius was born in 1966 and grew up with single mother in a suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden. He left for Stockholm after high school and studied history and philosophy, before taking a masters degree in graphic design at Konstfack 1996. Jakob has been working as freelance illustrator ever...

  • James Dashner

    James Dashner

    James Dashner is the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, which is also being turned into a film. James was born and raised in Georgia where he read extensively, wrote stories on his parents' old typewriter, and dreamed of becoming a writer. Instead, he st...

  • James Davies

    James Davies

    James Davies is an illustrator and author from Wales, now living in Bristol. He has recently returned to illustration with the 'Meet the....' series (including Meet the Ancient Egyptians, Meet the Ancient Romans) published by Big Picture Press - a uniquely bold, graphic style, influence...

  • James Holland

    James Holland

    James Holland was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and studied history at Durham University. He is the bestselling author of numerous historical non-fiction titles and the Jack Tanner fiction series, and recently presented Battle of Britain: The Real Story on BBC2. A member of the British...

  • James Patterson

    James Patterson

    James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade: the Womens Murder Club, the Alex Cross novels and Maximum Ride, and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novel...

  • James Weston Lewis

    James Weston Lewis

    Born in Bath, James moved to Oxfordshire when he was 5 where he grew up in a small village. He did an Art Foundation degree at Oxford Brookes University and then moved to Bristol to study Illustration at the University of the West of England, where he specialised in Print. James now lives in L...

  • Jamie Buxton

    Jamie Buxton

    Jamie Buxton read English at Cambridge and has been writing all his adult life. He taught in the States for a while and splits his time between London, Dartmoor, his car, local cafes and libraries. He is married with one child plus dogs, cats and all their fleas. He has also travelled e...