Authors Teenagers

  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    Benjamin Zephaniah

    Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 - 2023):  Poet, Musician, Campaigner Benjamin Zephaniah was a performer, musician, actor, and remains one of the UK's best-known poets. Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, Benjamin began writing and performing at the age of 11, and had his first col...

  • Catherine Barter

    Catherine Barter

    Catherine Barter's We Played with Fire won the Young Quill's Award for historical fiction for her novel, We Played with Fire, which is based on a true story. Her first YA novel, Troublemakers (Andersen Press), was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and was l...

  • David Almond

    David Almond

    David Almond was born in Newcastle and spent his childhood playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an altar boy. He initially trained as a teacher before writing his award-winning novel Skellig. David's books sell all over the world, and in 2011 he was the re...

  • Hannah Foley

    Hannah Foley

    Hannah Foley's latest novel, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, is a dual timeline mystery story with mental health themes. Hannah grew up in Devon, surrounded by green fields and spare tractor parts. She worked as an illustrato...

  • Robert Muchamore

    Robert Muchamore

    Robert Muchamore's new series brings Robin Hood into the 21st century!  Robert was inspired to create his bestselling CHERUB series by his nephews' complaints about the lack of anything for them to read! CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and the seri...

  • David Solomons

    David Solomons

    A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is David Solomon's sixth novel for children and follows his bestselling My Brother is a Superhero series.  Before writing for children, he wrote screenplays for many years and his first feature film was an adaptation of 'Five Child...

  • Jonathan Tulloch

    Jonathan Tulloch

    Cuckoo Summer, a wartime story about evacuation and the effects of war, is Jonathan Tulloch's first book for children. It was inspired by stories heard from family members in Cumbria who had had evacuees to stay during the war years. Jonathan is also the author of eight novels...

  • Hana Tooke

    Hana Tooke

    Hana Tooke's new novel, The Midnighters, follows a group of children as they explore and discover new skills, at midnight. Hana was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, in 1985 and moved to England in the late 1990s. She now lives in Bath with a big human, a little human, and an even littler c...