Authors

  • Lesley Howarth

    Lesley Howarth

    L.P.(Lesley) Howarth is a highly distinguished writer for young people. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for Maphead, which was also Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal. The Flower King was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award (then the Whitbread Children's Book Awa...

  • Lev Grossman

    Lev Grossman

    Lev Grossman is the author of five novels for adults, including the No.1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy, which has been published in 30 countries. A TV adaptation of the trilogy is now in its fourth season as the top-rated show on Syfy. Grossman is also an award-winning jo...

  • Leyland Perree

    Leyland Perree

    I'm Leyland Perree, author of a number of humourous rhyming picture books suitable for children from Foundation Stage up to KS2. I live in Devon, England, and have been writing for children since 2009. My books have been distributed across the globe from Australia to Singapore, and publ...

  • Lily Dyu

    Lily Dyu

    Lily Dyu lives in a Welsh valley. Growing up, she wanted to be a writer then an astronaut. Her favourite things are running in the mountains, camping wild and watching the night sky. Through her writing, she loves to tell true stories about people from all over the world. Maybe one day...

  • Linda Buckley-Archer

    Linda Buckley-Archer

    Linda Buckley-Archer was born in Sussex but spent most of her childhood in rural Staffordshire, in a small village close to Litchfield which features in the novel. Linda was an avid reader and adored C. S. Lewis, Rosemary Sutcliffe and Usual Le Guin. She is a confirmed Francophile, having live...

  • Linda Newbery

    Linda Newbery

    Linda enjoys researching her novels and besides a great deal of background reading has travelled for research purposes to Dublin, the Wicklow Mountains, Normandy, and the First World War battlefields in France and Belgium. She's also jumped out of a Cessna aeroplane at 2,000 feet, boarded a wa...

  • Lindsay Kelk

    Lindsay Kelk

    Lindsey Kelk began her career as a children's book editor and is now a bestselling author and journalist, with more than fourteen books to her name, including the hugely successful I Heart series. Her novels have been published in twenty-five languages and have sold over 1.2 million cop...

  • Lindsey Barraclough

    Lindsey Barraclough

    Lindsey Barraclough was born in Essex. She worked as a music teacher and lives in London with her husband and their five children. Long Lankin is her first novel.