Authors
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Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA, in 1956 and now lives in London. She attended the prestigious Harvard University and moved to London to study art in 1977. Meg is sure she should always have been a writer! It took many years in advertising and journalism and a fortieth birthday to ma...
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Megan Rix
Megan Rix is an author and animal lover. Her memoir 'The Puppy that Came for Christmas' is based on her experience of being a puppy parent for Helper Dogs. Her award winning books for children, although fictional, are based on the amazing things that dogs, and other animals, can and do, do. Sh...
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Mei Matsuoka
Mei Matsuoka was born in one of the world's largest cities - Tokyo. As a child she grew up surrounded by skyscrapers and travelling on busy trains but loved going out rescuing stray cats. Then, at the age of 11, her family moved to the very different surroundings of the English countryside. Me...
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Melissa Keil
Melissa was born in Melbourne, Australia and worked as an editor, high school teacher and a Middle Eastern tour guide before becoming an author. Her debut YA novel, Life in Outer Space, was the winner of the 2013 Ampersand Project and won IBBY Australia's Ena Noel award and was shortlis...
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MG Harris
M G (Maria Guadalupe) Harris was born in Mexico City. When her parents split up, five-year-old MG moved to Frankfurt, Germany before moving again to Manchester, England where she married a British cellist from the Halle Orchestra. As a teenager she made regular visits to her father...
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Michael Byrne
Michael Byrne worked as an English teacher in a secondary school just a mile from Heathrow. He then moved to Winchester to work as an airport taxi driver. The irony is not lost on him. Michael lives with his daughter Eve and their cat Chloe in Hampshire. He is now a full time writer; Lottery B...
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Michael Foreman
Born 1938, in Pakefield, a fishing village in Suffolk, England, Michael Foreman grew up during the Second World War, an experience which has had a lasting and creative influence on his work. He studied painting at Lowestoft School of Art (1954-1958) and then, commercial art, for the next two y...
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Michael Grant
Michael Grant was born in Los Angeles but that's not important because he was soon out of there. His father was a military man, frequently transferred, so Michael was the "new kid" in school every year but one. He left school early and embraced the rootless lifestyle as his own. He's lived in...
