Authors

  • 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.

  • Linwood Barclay

    Linwood Barclay

    Linwood Barclay is an internationally bestselling author of 13 novels for adults, including Trust Your Eyes and No Time for Goodbye. Barclay was born in the United States but moved to Canada just before turning four years old when his father, a commercial artist, accepted a position wit...

  • Lisa Heathfield

    Lisa Heathfield

    Lisa lives in Brighton with her husband and three sons. Before becoming a mum, she was a secondary school English teacher and loved inspiring teenagers to read.After teaching, she ran a cafe in Brighton for seven years. In the middle of the general chaos of her lovely children, bak...

  • Lisa Thompson

    Lisa Thompson

    Lisa Thompson was born in Essex and as a child spent many hours in the local library reading and dreaming about becoming a writer one day. She worked in radio production at BBC Radio 2, and then as a freelancer, making plays and comedy shows for Radio 4. It was only after moving...

  • Lissa Price

    Lissa Price

    Lissa (pronounced LISS-sa) has written children's television for Jim Henson Productions and is an award-winning screenwriter. She lives in the foothills of Southern California, but has previously travelled the world; walking with elephants in Botswana, swimming with penguins in the Galapagos a...

  • Lita Judge

    Lita Judge

    Lita Judge is the author and illustrator of over 20 fiction and non-fiction picture books. Her books have received numerous awards including the Sterling North Award, the Jane Addams Honor, ALA Notable and Kirkus Best of. She enjoys teaching both writing and illustration to students of...