Authors Schools & Libraries
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Claire Barker
Claire Barker grew up reading stories and when she left school, did a degree in English and History (when she read more stories). Since then, she has been a secretary, a poodle groomer, a shop assistant, a puppeteer, an English tutor, a waitress, an illustrator and a primary school teaching as...
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Rebecca Lisle
Rebecca was born in Yorkshire to artist parents. Rebecca has inherited some of their talent and illustrated a few of her books - she even did the cover of 'Shrubbery Skulduggery'. She has always lived in a house with dogs and cats and many of her books feature animals of one sort or another. S...
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Renee Watson
Renee Watson is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author of the novels Piecing Me Together, What Momma Left Me and Watch Us Rise, co-written with Ellen Hagan. Renee is the founder of I, Too Arts Collective, a non-profit committed to nurturing under-represente...
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CJ Haslam
C. J. (Chris) Haslam is the award-winning Chief Travel Writer at The Sunday Times, specialising in extreme adventure. He appears regularly on the BBC and has written three black comedy thrillers for adults. One of them, Twelve Step Fandango, was shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe award...
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Richard Harland
Richard Harland was born in the north of England in the middle of the coldest winter ever recorded. He moved to Australia on a university scholarship, fell in love with it and stayed. Richard loves writing fantasy and science fiction for adults and children, and has won five Aurealis awards fo...
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Richard Monte
Richard Monte was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey and went to school in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. He studied History at the University of London, specialising in Eastern Europe. His first job was in journalism but, realising he wanted to be an author, he left to take up...
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CJ Harper
C.J. Harper is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing for Young People and a former Waterstone's children's bookseller. THE DISAPPEARED is her first novel.
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Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan spent 15 years as a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 1997 he began publishing mystery novels for adults. His popular Tres Nevarre series has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Rick was inspir...
