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  • Soman Chainani

    Soman Chainani

    Soman Chainani has written numerous screenplays and his recent work includes the upcoming feature musical MUMBO JUMBO for Aardman Animation (WALLACE & GROMIT, FLUSHED AWAY, CHICKEN RUN), and the adaptation of children's book THE PUSHCART WAR for Jane Startz Productions. Soman lives in the...

  • Sophia Bennett

    Sophia Bennett

    Sophia Bennett's debut novel, Threads, won the Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition in 2009. She has since published six further novels for young teens, including The Look and Love Song. Sophia has been called 'the queen of teen dreams' by journalist Amanda Craig, for her explo...

  • Sophie Anderson

    Sophie Anderson

    Sophie Anderson grew up in Swansea, studied at Liverpool University, and has worked as a geologist, science teacher and text book author. Sophie was inspired to love stories by her Prussian grandmother who fled her homeland during WW2, losing her family in the process. She carried the s...

  • Sophie McKenzie

    Sophie McKenzie

    Sophie McKenzie - 'an author whose profile is sky-high following major success on Richard and Judy' The Bookseller. Sophie is the author of the multi award-winning Girl, Missing, as well as Blood Ties, Six Steps to a Girl, Three's a Crowd, The One and Only and Sister, Missing. The Medus...

  • Sophie Wills

    Sophie Wills

    Sophie grew up in Chelmsford, Essex. She failed the 11+, had a weekend job at a boarding kennels where she suffered workplace bullying from a goat, and nurtured a dream to have a career she could do in her pyjamas. She worked at two London publishers before finally achieving her ambition by go...

  • Stacy Gregg

    Stacy Gregg

    Stacy Gregg is the author of the successful pony adventure series Pony Club Secrets and Pony Club Rivals and standalone novel The Princess and the Foal, winner of the Children's Choice Junior Fiction award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. A former...

  • Stephen Elboz

    Stephen Elboz

    Stephen Elboz was born in Wellingborough, Northants where he still lives. He started to write while still at school, encouraged by a teacher, but left with only one GCSE (for technical drawing!) having failed English dismally. Later, however, he studied history at Lancaster University, also ma...

  • Stephen Kelman

    Stephen Kelman

    Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. P...