Authors Families

  • Tom Mitchell

    Tom Mitchell

    Tom Mitchell is mostly father, partly writer. Growing up in the West Country, he settled in London after a brief interlude in the East Midlands. HOW TO ROB A BANK is his first novel, written during the school holidays of his teaching job. He lives in Orpington with his wife and two sons. He ca...

  • Tom Moorhouse

    Tom Moorhouse

    Tom Moorhouse is an ecologist at Oxford University's Zoology Department, as well as an author. He studied for a degree in general biology, before doing a masters and then a PhD researching the reintroduction of mammals into the wild, focusing on water voles. He spent another four years...

  • Tom Palmer

    Tom Palmer

    Tom is the author of two football fiction series for Puffin. Foul Play is a five-book series about a fourteen-year-old boy who tries to solve football-related crimes, such as kidnapped players and murderer managers. Aimed at school years 5-8. Football Academy is about an under-tw...

  • Tomi Adeyemi

    Tomi Adeyemi

    California-based Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American writer and creative writing coach. She studied English Literature at Harvard University where she received a fellowship that allowed her to study West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil. She signed a seven-figure deal f...

  • Tommy Donbavand

    Tommy Donbavand

    Tommy Donbavand was born in Liverpool, but knows hardly any of The Beatles. When he was 9 years old his parents moved to Lancashire and, because they didn't trust him to forward their post, he had to go with them. After training as a straight actor, Tommy immediately became a clown call...

  • Tony De Saulles

    Tony De Saulles

    Tony De Saulles is an award-winning children's author and illustrator. He is the illustrator of the bestselling Horrible Science series, which has won many awards including The Blue Peter Prize For Best Book With Facts. The first title in Tony's new fiction series, Bee Boy, is out in 20...

  • Tony DiTerlizzi

    Tony DiTerlizzi

    Tony DiTerlizzi is co-creator of the international bestselling series, The Spiderwick Chronicles. He has illustrated numerous picture books for children, including Ted, G is for 1 Gzonk and The Spider and the Fly, which won the US Caldecott Honor. Tony lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Ang...

  • Tony Ross

    Tony Ross

    Tony Ross is one of the UK's top children's books illustrators, and his books are published in twenty two languages. He lives in Cheshire.