Authors
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Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson started her career writing songs for children's television. In 1993, one of her songs was made into a book, A Squash and a Squeeze. Julia is a frequent visitor to Scottish schools and libraries, where she talks, acts and sings with her audiences. For three years s...
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Julia Gray
Julia Gray is a writer and singer-songwriter. Her debut book The Otherlife was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award and nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and her second book, Little Liar, was shortlisted for CrimeFest's Best Crime Novel for Young Adults 2019. Julia studied Classics a...
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Julia Green
Julia is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and the Course Director for the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. Her students have included prize-winning Sally Nicholls, Marie-Louise Jensen, Lucy Christopher and Elen Caldecott. Julia lives in Bath.
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Julia Jarman
Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a schoolteacher and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits to talk to children about writing.
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Julia Lee
Julia Lee has been making up stories for as long as she can remember. She wrote her first book aged 5, mainly so that she could do all the illustrations with a brand-new 4-colour pen, and her mum stitched the pages together on her sewing machine. As a child she was ill quite a bit, which meant...
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Julian Sedgwick
I was born in East Kent in 1966 and wanted to become a writer for as long as I can remember. At Cambridge University I studied Chinese and Philosophy. I have always written since then, but took a long detour - working as a bookseller, painter, therapist, researcher for film and TV - before mov...
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Julie Hearn
Julie started her working life as a journalist. She wrote for a daily tabloid newspaper in Australia before returning to England and working as a features editor and 'mother and baby' columnist. After her daughter Tilly was born, she started to train as a teacher at Westminster College, Oxford...
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Julie Mayhew
Julie Mayhew trained as an actress and a journalist and has written extensively for the national press. Other jobs she has done include modelling for Rankin, reading the traffic and travel news for Chris Evans and she once worked in a prison. Her debut novel, Red Ink, was published by H...
