Authors

  • Patrick Ness

    Patrick Ness

    Patrick Ness was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States. His father was a drill sergeant in the US Army. He lived in Hawaii until he was six and then moved to Washington state, where he lived for ten years before moving to Los Angeles t...

  • Eleanor Updale

    Eleanor Updale

    Eleanor Updale was born in London and won a first class degree in history at Oxford University. For many years, she was producer for BBC radio and television. Now, as well as writing the Montmorency books, she is back in the academic world, studying at the Centre For Editing Lives and L...

  • Paul Adam

    Paul Adam

    Paul Adam was born in Coventry and grew up in Sheffield. He studied law at Nottingham University, then worked as a journalist in both the UK and Italy. He has written television and film scripts and ten critically-acclaimed thrillers for adults. Escape from Shadow Island is his first book for...

  • Eden Maguire

    Eden Maguire

    Eden Maguire graduated from Birmingham University with a PhD in English Lit and now lives in the Yorkshire Dales with her two daughters, her horse, Merlin, plus a dog and a cat. She spends part of each year at a ranch in Colorado, where she rides alone in the mountains her idea of perfect happ...

  • Paul Dowswell

    Paul Dowswell

    Described by the Times as one of the best new writers of historical fiction for children, Paul Dowswell is a regular visitor to schools throughout the UK. Starting his working life as a researcher for museums and information books, Paul spent 15 years writing and editing non-fiction (Us...

  • E. Lockhart

    E. Lockhart

    E. Lockhart is the author of nine novels, including WE WERE LIARS, THE BOYFRIEND LIST, FLY ON THE WALL and THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS which was a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of a Cybils Award for Best Young Adult...

  • Paul Howard

    Paul Howard

    Paul Howard is a well-established illustrator with a history of successful picture books and has won numerous awards for his work. His picture books have included Jill Tomlinson's The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, and a series of illustrated fiction titles, Bugville. Paul lives in Bel...

  • Paul Stewart

    Paul Stewart

    Paul Stewart was born in 1955 in London and lived for a year in Muswell Hill before moving to Morden in Southwest London, 'the end of the Northern line'. He is a graduate of Lancaster University and of the University of East Anglia's creative writing course. For several years he taught...