Authors
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pauline Chandler
Pauline Chandler was born in Nottinghamshire. In 2003 she was awarded the Arts Council England Writers' Award. It is an award that, over the years, has been given to writers such as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Hughes, Ian McEwan, A S Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, and Jim Crace. In total, pre...
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Pauline Francis
Pauline Francis has spent all her life with books: reading them, studying them (when she was at University), translating them (when she lived in Africa), teaching them (when she was a French teacher) and working with them (when she was a school librarian). So one day she thought: Id like to wr...
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson used to work as a film critic for Radio One as well as for his local paper. As a critic and member of the National Film Theatre he has interviewed a number of visiting stars such as Nicholas Cage, Melanie Griffith, James Stewart and Ingrid Bergman. Although no longer a crit...