Authors
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
