Authors

  • Miriam Moss

    Miriam Moss

    Miriam is an award winning author of more than 75 children's books, both information and fiction. Her fiction includes picture books, novelty books and poetry, and recently short stories for the adult market. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages. Miriam has had wide exp...

  • Miriam Stoppard

    Miriam Stoppard

    Dr Miriam Stoppard is Britain's bestselling childcare author. As a popular medical writer and broadcaster, and in her daily column for The Mirror, she has helped millions of people deal with life's emotional problems and healthdifficulties. Well known for her practical, sympathetic appro...

  • Mitchell Symons

    Mitchell Symons

    Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game T...

  • Moira Young

    Moira Young

    Moira was born in New Westminster, BC, on the west coast of Canada, to a business man father and a primary teacher mother. She has two younger sisters and all her immediate and extended family live in the Vancouver area. She also travelled to Europe as a child and lived in Scotland for a perio...

  • Morag Hood

    Morag Hood

    Morag Hood is a children's author and illustrator from Edinburgh. Morag spent her childhood writing stories, painting, and dreaming of having a pet duck. Following a degree in Costume Design from Wimbledon College of Art, and an MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge Scho...

  • Muhammad Khan

    Muhammad Khan

    Muhammad Khan is an engineer, a secondary-school maths teacher, and now a YA author! He lives in South London and is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at St Mary's. Muhammad takes his inspiration from the children he teaches, as well as his own upbringing as a British-born Pakistani....

  • Narinder Dhami

    Narinder Dhami

    Narinder was born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Cambridgeshire. After obtaining an English degree from Birmingham University, she did a PGCE course and began teaching in the early 1980s. She worked as a primary school teacher for ten years, but for the last nine years she has been a full-t...

  • Natasha Carthew

    Natasha Carthew

    Natasha Carthew is a working-class country writer from Cornwall. She has written all her books outside, either in the fields and woodland that surround her home or in the cabin that she built from scrap wood. She has written two books of poetry, as well as three novels for young adults; Winter...