Authors

  • Jorge Martin

    Jorge Martin

    Jorge Martin drew compulsively on any surface available to him as a child. Originally from Spain, he has lived in San Francisco, Mexico City, Hamburg and London. Currently dedicated to doodling and storytelling, he writes and illustrates books, runs picture book courses, and draws live at even...

  • Joseph Delaney

    Joseph Delaney

    Joseph Delaney is a retired English teacher living in Lancashire near his three children and seven grandchildren. His home is in the middle of Boggart territory and his village has a boggart called the Hall Knocker, which was laid to rest under the step of a house near the church. Most...

  • Joshua Doder

    Joshua Doder

    Joshua Doder lives in London with his wife, two dogs, three cats and a ferret called Miki. He has worked as a chef, a librarian and an actor. His hobbies include collecting Japanese pottery and climbing mountains. He is now writing a short history of pizza. He has also written adult books, had...

  • JR Wallis

    JR Wallis

    JR Wallis is a children's author who also writes YA fiction as Rupert Wallis. He teaches on the MSt in Creative Writing at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge University.

  • Judi Curtin

    Judi Curtin

    Judi Curtin is Ireland's favourite children's writer. She is the best-selling author of the Alice and Megan series which has sold rights to Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, Lithuania and Serbia. The series has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. She is the author of the Eva series, also...

  • Judith Heneghan

    Judith Heneghan

    Judith Heneghan loved reading even as a child, and has always wanted to be a writer. She achieved Distinction for her MA in Writing for Children in Winchester, and has been a book editor. STONECIPHER is her first published title. She is married to a journalist, and they have four children. The...

  • Judith Kerr

    Judith Kerr

    JUDITH KERR was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin, and escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933, when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family lived in Switzerland and France...

  • Julia Bertagna

    Julia Bertagna

    Julie Bertagna was born in Ayrshire, but grew up near Glasgow. Her first published fiction was while she was still at school she wrote rave reviews of her brother's rock band for the local paper, which was pure fiction, as the band were terrible! After completing an MA Honours degree in Englis...