Authors

  • Mandy Stanley

    Mandy Stanley

    Mandy Stanley was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk. She completed a Foundation Art course at Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design and then a Fashion degree at Nottingham Trent University, before beginning a successful career designing baby clothes and award-winning toys for high street stores. A...

  • Maria V Snyder

    Maria V Snyder

    Maria V. Snyder grew up in Pennsylvania in the US and trained as a meteorologist - because she loved the idea of chasing storms - before becoming a novelist with the New York Times best-selling Study Series (Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study) about a young woman who becomes a poison tas...

  • Marianne Levy

    Marianne Levy

    Before she started writing books, Marianne was an actress. Not the incredibly famous sort, though. After graduating from Cambridge University she appeared in a few TV shows and did a bit of comedy on Radio 4. She has been in one film, in which she managed to forget both her lines. <...

  • Mark Lowery

    Mark Lowery

    Mark Lowery is a 32 year old father of two young children. He lives in Cambridgeshire with his girlfriend. The youngest of four, Mark was born in North Wales and grew up in Preston, Lancs. He is a primary school teacher and has worked at schools in Leeds, Ipswich and Padova in Italy. He curren...

  • Mark Powers

    Mark Powers

    Author Mark Powers has been making up ridiculous stories since primary school and is slightly shocked to find that people now pay him to do it. As a child he always daydreamed that his teddy bear went off on top secret missions when he was at school, so a team of toys recruited as spies seemed...

  • Mark Robson

    Mark Robson

    MARK ROBSON was born in Essex and raised, for the most part, in Camarthen, West Wales.In 1982 he gained a scholarship to join the Royal Air Force and was an operational pilot for morethan twenty years. His career as a writer began during his time in the Falklands; bad weather...

  • Markus Zusak

    Markus Zusak

    Markus Zusak is best known as the author of The Book Thief, a breathtaking novel about a girl living in Nazi Germany whose world is opened up by reading. The book became a word of mouth bestseller across the globe. Fighting Ruben Wolfe is Markus's second novel which was first published a decad...

  • Martin Brown

    Martin Brown

    Martin Brown is best known for his illustrations of the best-selling Horrible Histories series. Martin is from Australia where he grew up a suburban boy in Melbourne, Australia. Ever since he can remember, he's been doodling drawing cartoons. This enthusiasm for non-stop doodling and hi...