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  • Sean McManus

    Sean McManus

    Sean McManus writes inspiring books that introduce children to programming, including Scratch Programming in Easy Steps, Cool Scratch Projects in Easy Steps and Raspberry Pi For Dummies (co-authored). Sean learned to program when he was nine, starting with the Logo language, which is of...

  • Chris Riddell

    Chris Riddell

    Chris and his family moved to Britain from Cape Town when he was a year old. Due to his father's peripatetic lifestyle as a liberal Anglican Vicar, Chris, his sister and two brothers grew up everywhere from Bristol to Brixton. Despite there being no strong artistic influences in the family, Ch...

  • Sean Williams

    Sean Williams

    Sean Williams was born in Australia in 1967. He started reading science fiction at an early age and began writing his own genre short stories when he was ten years old. His parents were teachers (his father later became an Anglican priest) and that meant a lot of moving around, although...

  • Chris Priestley

    Chris Priestley

    Chris Priestley was born in Hull, and has lived in Wales and Gibraltar. As a nine-year-old, he won a prize in a story-writing competition, which first gave him the idea of writing for a living. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to be a political cartoonist, publishing his...

  • Serena Patel

    Serena Patel

    Serena Patel is a part-time law firm training co-ordinator and mum of two. She was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize in 2017 and was a finalist in the Undiscovered Voices Anthology in 2018. She is also a member of the Golden Egg Academy and SCWBI. Her debut children's s...

  • Shane Hegarty

    Shane Hegarty

    Shane Hegarty was the Arts Editor of the Irish Times but left to write full time in 2013 when he secured a publishing contract for Darkmouth with HarperCollins alongside record-breaking publishing deals in the US, Germany, Brazil and more. He lives on the east coast of Ireland in a...

  • Sharon Dogar

    Sharon Dogar

    Sharon Dogar, author of Waves and Falling, was born in 1962 just outside Oxford, where she now lives with her husband and three children. Among her favourite books are To Kill a Mockingbird, Skellig and Where the Wild Things Are. As well as an author, Dogar is a social worker who counsels trou...

  • Chris Mould

    Chris Mould

    Chris Mould left school aged 16 and went straight to art school where he was inspired by illustrators such as George Cruikshank, Ralph Steadman and Ronald Searle. He did a variety of part-time jobs, from delivering papers to washing up and cooking in a kitchen, and decided to become a f...