Authors

  • Kesia Lupo

    Kesia Lupo

    By day, Kesia Lupo works as an editor for Chicken House, by night and the early hours of the morning she escapes into her very own fantasy world and writes. She studied history at Oxford University and creative writing at Bath Spa. Kesia lives in Bristol with her husband. We Are...

  • Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in 1941 and grew up in Buckinghamshire. He studied at Oxford University where he discovered a lifelong passion for myth and legend, and for Anglo-Saxon and medieval English. He worked in publishing for several years and has held a number of academic posts. Kevin...

  • Kim Hood

    Kim Hood

    KIM HOOD grew up in British Columbia, Canada. After earning degrees in psychology, history and education, she wandered through a few countries before making the west coast of Ireland home. Her eclectic work experience in education, therapy and community services has presented endless op...

  • Kjartan Poskitt

    Kjartan Poskitt

    Kjartan Poskitt, best known as the author of the Murderous Maths books, was born and now lives in Yorkshire. Kjartan had always wanted to be a performer and while he was studying at Durham university he started writing plays and songs, and then wrote for television programmes. In 1990 h...

  • Korky Paul

    Korky Paul

    Early Years and beyondKorky Paul was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951. He studied art at the Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years working for an advertising agency in Cape Town. In 1976 as Korky puts it he "fled for Europe" and got a job illustrating and...

  • Kris Humphrey

    Kris Humphrey

    Kris grew up in Plymouth, where he spent most of his time reading books, riding around on his bike and daydreaming about writing a book himself one day. Since then, Kris has had more jobs than he cares to think about. He has been a cinema projectionist, a bookseller and a blood factory...

  • Kristyna Litten

    Kristyna Litten

    Kristyna studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated in 2010 and was awarded Silver for AOI Best of British illustration in 2012. She now lives in a beautiful village in Yorkshire where she is heavily reliant on the good old pencil and a great big cup of tea to keep her goin...

  • Adele Geras

    Adele Geras

    Adle Geras was born in Jerusalem in 1944. She was educated at Roedean School, Brighton, and St. Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied Modern Languages. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1976 she was a singer, an actress and a French teacher. Adele says that she writes, entirely...