Authors
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Paola Peretti
PAOLA PERETTI is Italian and was born in the province of Verona, where she still lives today. She studied literature and philosophy and graduated in publishing and journalism in 2011 with a thesis on gender discrimination in literature. She also attended the Palomar School of creative writing...
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Ellen Renner
Ellen Renner was born in the Ozarks mountains of Missouri. She decided to become a writer when her fourth grade teacher, Mrs Ormsby, read Charlotte's Web to the class one spring afternoon. Reading about other people and places made her want to travel, and Ellen first came to England in...
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Pat Hutchins
Pat Hutchins was born Yorkshire, the sixth of seven children. She won a scholarship to Darlington School of Art in 1958 and continued studying illustration at Leeds College of Art, graduating in 1962. She worked for advertising agency in London until 1966 when she married Laurence Hutch...
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Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, The Infinite is her first novel. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers...
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Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex. She has published 14 children's books and has also written adult books and plays. She now works as a travel journalist and, with a young granddaughter, she returned to the world of children's books with...
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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...
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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...
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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...
