Authors Families
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Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie
Catherine Cawthorne's Big Bad Wolf Investigates explores the science behind our favourite fairy tales... Growing up, Catherine wanted to be an author. She spent most of her childhood either up a tree, reading, or forming secret societies in her best friend's shed. Catherine no...
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Katie and Kevin Tsang
Authors Katie and Kevin Tsang introduce their new Dragon Force adventure, Devourer's Attack, in this special ReadingZone feature. Katie grew up in California, and also writes YA as Katherine Webber. Kevin was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, but grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. They met while...
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Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick and then travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan, before undertaking a masters in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa. It was here that she wrot...
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Becky Albertalli
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat. She is also the co-author of What If It’s Us with Adam Silvera. A former clinical psychologist who specialised in working with childr...
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the environment. It is a book that she says has been "many years in the making". Sita was born in Derby, to an Indian doctor from Kolkata and an English nurse from the...
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Sue Divin
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies and a career in Community Relations, her writing often touches on diversity and reconciliation. Her short stories, flash fiction and...
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Tracy Darnton
Tracy Darnton's new tense YA page-turner, Ready or Not, follows a group of teenagers meeting for the first time since one of the group went missing last summer. Tracy studied law at Camridge and worked as a solicitor and a law lecturer. In 2016 she dec...
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Katharine and Elizabeth Corr
Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkness series. The authors are sisters, originally from Essex, but now live in Surrey. When they both decided to write novels - on account of...
