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SE Durrant
S.E. Durrant has wanted to be a writer since she was a child and has always squeezed writing in around the edges of her life. She spent her childhood in Scotland before moving to Leicestershire when she was twelve. She studied Fine Art (painting) and then travelled widely before settlin...
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Chris Ryan
Less than a week after the outbreak of the Gulf War, Chris Ryan and 7 fellow SAS soldiers were dropped by helicopter in the Iraqi desert. Their mission was to locate and destroy Saddam Husseins mobile Scud missile launches but it ended in catastrophic failure with three men dead and four captu...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
