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  • Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and illustrator who lives on a tumbledown farm with his family and plenty of pigs near Dartmoor. He is the prize-winning writer of The Last Englishman, a biography of Arthur...

  • Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for a Master's degree in Law at the University of Cambridge, where he spent lectures daydreaming about stories of witches and dragons and cake. He's now pursuing a PH...

  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna

    Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel, and the follow-up, Woodwitch (Welbeck) Skye grew in a mining town in the Australian outback. Surrounded by the red dust of the P...

  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner is a YA and children's fantasy author and dinosaur lover. Over the years, she has worked everywhere from a cinema (where she ate too much popcorn) to a museum (where some of her colleagues were literally dinosaurs). The Deadlands is her first middle-grade series. You c...

  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Iranian grandmother, and his younger brother. His earliest creative influences were the Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, and Tom McGowen...

  • Alexandra Beever

    Alexandra Beever

    DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree at university, she competed at the Olympics and won a gold medal at the World Championships as part of the GB Rowing Team.  Alex enjoys spending time with her daughter,...

  • Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the south coast of the UK and then moved to London, where she now lives. She studied English Literature and Drama and undertook an MA in English Literature at Queen Mary Universi...

  • MG Leonard

    MG Leonard

    MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of bestselling series include Beetle Boy and Adventures on Trains. MG Leonard is an experienced producer, director and actor, and has...