Authors Children
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Discover Jack Jackman's thrilling Maisie adventures!
Jack Jackman introduces his young heroine, Maisie, and her adventures in Antarctica and the Himalayas! Jack is a father of three who works as a teacher in Scotland. Before settling in Scotland, he spent his time wandering the world, including a time in Argentina where h...
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Martin Howard
Martin Howard writes absurdly funny books for children and he's here to tell us about his latest book, Mallory Vayle and Maggoty Skull in . . . The Beast from Beneath - his favourite book so far! Since starting out as a writer in 2005 Martin has written about 100 books...
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Pirates, orphans and hidden treasure: Doug Naylor introduces Sin Bin Island
Screen writer Doug Naylor spoke to ReadingZone about his first children's book, Sin Bin Island, an adventure-packed tale of lost treasure, dark legends and piracy! Doug is a British Emmy-award-winning television writer, Sunday Times bestselling novelist, and an award-wi...
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll introduces her new fantasy adventure, Dracula and Daughters, which revisits vampire myths and the Dracula story to create a modern classic. The bestselling novelist taught English for 20 years before following her dream of being an...
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Annelise Gray
Author Annelise Gray introduces her fantasy adventure, The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam, which draws on Homer's The Odyssey to explore myths, memories and home. Annelise was born in Bermuda and moved to the UK as a child. She grew up riding horses and dreaming of becoming...
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Kirsty Applebaum introduces The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good
Kirsty Applebaum introduces her novel, The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good, and tells ReadingZone about the fables and fairytales that inspired it. Kirsty is the award-winning author of books including The Middler, Troofriend and The Life a...
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Endangered animals, incredible adventures - and super-powers!
Abiola Bello introduces her Wild Magic series and tells ReadingZone what inspired these magical adventures about endangered animals. Abiola was born and raised in Stoke Newington, North London. She is a Nigerian-British author and first began writing the Emily Knight sa...
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Simon Chapman explores The Speed of Light
Simon Chapman brings Einstein's theories about relativity to life in The Speed of Light, including what inspired his theories - and what would happen if we could travel at the speed of light! Simon is an experienced Physics teacher, but he's also an author, traveller an...
