Authors Schools & Libraries
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sharon Gosling
Sharon Gosling always wanted to be a writer. She started as an entertainment journalist, writing about television series such as Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. Her first novel was published under a pen name in 2010. Sharon and her husband live in a very small cottage in a very remote villa...
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Chris MacGregor
"I am currently the Commanding Officer of The Royal Wessex Yeomanry, the UK's Armoured Reserve. I have two children, Ellie and Ben. Before I departed for a tour of Iraq, I recorded a story for them so that they could hear my voice whenever they wished. They missed me very much. Fortunately, th...
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Sheila Agnew
Sheila Agnew was born in New York and grew up in Dublin with her sister and two brothers. After graduating, she practiced as a lawyer in London, Sydney and New York and worked in such far-flung places as Accra, Cairo and Bratislava. Sheila had wanted to be a writer since she was seven a...
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Sheila O'Flanagan
Sheila is an ex-bond dealer and financial journalist whose novels have all been immediate No 1 Irish bestsellers. Sheila also writes a weekly column for the Irish Times. Her books have been described 'as necessary to women as chocolate, and just as addictive!' Her last three novels have...
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Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes was born and grew up in West Kirby, Wirral, near Liverpool in 1927 and she trained at Liverpool Art School and at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, where she later became a visiting tutor. She became an illustrator after leaving Art School and has been doing this ever sin...
