Kate started out as a children’s writer for BBC Radio creating audio stories for pre-school listeners that involved a lot of animals (and animal noises). She then became a radio producer for many years, recording everything from boiling spaghetti to a poet in a broom cupboard, and working primarily on arts programmes, literary features and […]
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Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell is a former contributing editor of Total Film magazine turned screenwriter and author. He has written several non-fiction books, including Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema and Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood. SkyWake: Invasion is the first in a planned trilogy and is Jamie’s first book for children. […]
Anna Goodall
Anna Goodall was born in London into a family of musicians. But amidst all the instruments and piles of music, there were also an awful lot of books. Her granny used to read to her every night, and family folklore has it that she loved to write little notes to herself before she could read […]
Kate Gilby Smith
Kate Gilby Smith was born on the sunny island of Guernsey. It was daydreaming during a philosophy of time travel seminar at Edinburgh University that she first had the idea for her first book, The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody. Alongside being an author, she works as a publicist at a London publisher of science, […]
Maisie Chan
Maisie Chan is a British-born Chinese author. She has written early reader books for Hachette and a collection of fairy tales, myths and legends in Stories From Around the World for Scholastic, as well as many stories for The Big Think: a well-being curriculum based around stories for primary school children. She also started the […]
Eve McDonnell
Eve is a children’s author and artist who lives halfway up a big hill with her husband, twins, Happy the dog and Fusspot the cat. Eve embarked on a career as an artist and worked in graphic design, marketing and brand development. Having recognised the similarities between a blank canvas and a blank page, Eve’s […]
Helen Rutter
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh is Helen’s first novel. She lives just outside Sheffield and has worked as an actress for many years. The idea for this story came from her son, Lenny, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him. […]
Jack Meggitt-Phillips
Jack Meggitt-Phillips is the bestselling author of The Beast and the Bethany – an 8-12 children’s book about a young 500-year-old, a carnivorous beast, and a child who’s going to be eaten. The book has secured over 30 foreign deals, and the film rights have been snapped up by Warner Bros. and Harry Potter and […]
Lesley Parr
Lesley Parr grew up in South Wales and now lives in England with her husband and their rescue cat, Angharad. She shares her time between writing stories, teaching at a primary school and tutoring adults. Apart from books, rugby union is her favourite thing in the world, especially if Wales is winning. Lesley graduated with […]
Radiya Hafiza
Radiya Hafiza studied English Language and Literature at King’s College London and worked in publishing for a few years. Radiya grew up reading classic fairy tales that never had any brown girls in them – Rumaysa: A Fairytale is her debut novel, bringing such stories to children who need to see themselves represented. […]