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  • Tim Bowler

    Tim Bowler

    Tim Bowler was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the setting of his first novel, Midget. On leaving school he studied Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at East Anglia University, and lived for a while in Sweden. He then worked in a number of fields, including forestry and the timber t...

  • Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim graduated in Drama from the University of Bristol, in 1967. He now holds the position of Special Lecturer in the Department of Drama. He has played leading roles with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. His most recent stage appearance was as Henry Higgins in...

  • Tim Warnes

    Tim Warnes

    Tim Warnes grew up drawing, writing and making stories on an old typewriter, later moving on to making comics. He studied Graphic Design at Kingston University before studying for his degree at Brighton University, where he focused on illustration. After university, he spent four...

  • Toby Ibbotson

    Toby Ibbotson

    Toby Ibbotson is the eldest son of award-winning author Eva Ibbotson, whose novel The Abominables he edited with her first publisher, Marion Lloyd, following his mother's death. Mountwood School for Ghosts is his debut novel, from an original idea by Eva and planned out in detail by the two of...

  • Tom Easton

    Tom Easton

    Tom Easton grew up in Australia and Papua New Guinea and now lives in Farnham with his wife and children. He enjoys playing cricket and football and also plays the drums and guitar. Tom has previously written YA rom-com novels under a variety of pseudonyms for Hodder. HAV3N is his first...

  • Tom Hoyle

    Tom Hoyle

    'Tom Hoyle' (this is not his real name) works by day as a head teacher in a school in north London; during the holidays, he writes. His books have included Thirteen and Spiders, about a boy who comes to the attention of two very different cults.

  • Tom McLaughlin

    Tom McLaughlin

    Before becoming a writer and illustrator Tom spent nine years working as political cartoonist for The Western Morning News, thinking up silly jokes about even sillier politicians. Then, in 2004 Tom took the plunge into illustrating and writing his own books.Since then he has writte...

  • Tom Mitchell

    Tom Mitchell

    Tom Mitchell is mostly father, partly writer. Growing up in the West Country, he settled in London after a brief interlude in the East Midlands. HOW TO ROB A BANK is his first novel, written during the school holidays of his teaching job. He lives in Orpington with his wife and two sons. He ca...