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  • Holly Webb

    Holly Webb

    Author Holly Webb has just written the 60th book in her best-selling Animal Stories series, The Bold Kitten, and also writes time-slip novels, magical stories and the Museum Kittens series. Holly worked as an editor at Scholastic Children's Books before becoming a full...

  • Jonathan Stroud

    Jonathan Stroud

    The final book in Jonathan Stroud's Scarlett and Browne series, The Legendary Scarlett and Browne, is now available! Stroud worked as an editor at Walker Books when his first book, Buried Fire, was published. He has since written two internationally bestselling series:...

  • Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series

    Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series

    Eric Huang has always been fascinated by legends and lore and East Asian myths have helped inspire his debut series, Guardians of the New Moon. As a boy, he was determined to find real-life dragons, so he studied palaeontology at university. Reality didn't live up to hi...

  • Alice Nuttall introduces her gripping eco-horror novel, The Zombie Project

    Alice Nuttall introduces her gripping eco-horror novel, The Zombie Project

    When Alice Nuttall was little, she was given a giant stack of yellowing scrap paper from the factory where her grandfather worked. She started writing stories on it, and didn't stop even when it eventually ran out. Today, she writes children's stories and webcomics, as well as pet-sitti...

  • Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, Frank and Bert. Chris, who is from Bradford, studied illustration at Bradford College of Art before moving to France where he now lives....

  • Blessing Musariri

    Blessing Musariri

    Award-winning author Blessing Musariri's new YA novel, When It's Your Turn for Midnight, draws on the Zimbabwean civil war in a rich story about family, belonging and inheritance.  Blessing writes short stories, children’s stories, radio and screenplays, and contemporar...

  • Jana Curll introduces My Path

    Jana Curll introduces My Path

    Jana Curll is an illustrator/author living on the edge of Canada's rainy west coast. Growing up near-sighted and comic book-obsessed has lent itself well to a career where she draws smiley-faces on unsuspecting objects. She took an Illustration and Design programme at Capilano Universit...

  • Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell introduce The Seamaiden's Odyssey

    Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell introduce The Seamaiden's Odyssey

    Berlie Doherty is the author of the best-selling novel, Street Child, and over 60 more books for children, teenagers and adults, and won the Carnegie medal for Granny Was a Buffer Girl and Dear Nobody. She also writes plays for radio, theatre and television. Berlie lives in th...