Authors Families
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Val Tyler
Val Tyler used to live near Greenwich, which inspired the setting for her Greenwich Chronicles series, but she has recently moved to Wales. She was a teacher for twenty years and now writes fulltime. The Time Wreccas, nominated for the Inaugural Ottakar's Children's Book Prize, was her debut n...
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Valerie Thomas
Valerie Thomas was born in Australia and has lived there for most of her life. She has worked as a teacher, as well as an educational researcher and curriculum consultant in the area of spelling. Valerie has travelled to most corners of the world, and has written about her travels: the...
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Vanessa Curtis
Vanessa Curtis is the award-winning author of contemporary YA novels including Zelah Green (winner of Manchester Children's Book Award / shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize) and The Haunting of Tabitha Grey. The Earth is Singing is her first historical novel, which Vanessa was in...
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Virginia Bergin
Virginia Bergin grew up in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, where she learned to roller-skate with the children of eminent physicists. She went on to study psychology before rediscovering creative writing. Since then she has written poetry, short stories, film and TV scripts.
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Vivian French
Vivian French has worked in the theatre, in counselling and in storytelling. Her first book was first published in 1990 and since then has had more than 270 books published. Away from the keyboard, she also conducts writing workshops for children and adults, and teaches at Edinburgh Col...
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Will Gatti
Will Gatti was born in London and has always been passionate about stories and storytelling. He has had a variety of jobs, including working as a docker in France, before moving to London where he worked in publishing as an editor. He then moved to the west coast of Ireland with his young fami...
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William Alexander
William Alexander is an American writer and Adjunct Professor in Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His debut novel, Goblin Secrets, won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It features an orphaned boy who runs away to search for his lost brothe...
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William Nicholson
William Nicholson was born in 1948 and received his early education at Downside School, a Roman Catholic monastic school, set in the countryside near Bath.He went on to study English Literature at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with a double First Class degree in 1970. After lea...
