Authors Teenagers

  • Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and middle grade fiction, and lives under a giant oak tree with her husband, two sons, two cats, and a gray-banded king snake. You can find her online at <a href="https://www.mi...

  • Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross has spent most of her career as a journalist at the Financial Times, where she was most recently Deputy News Editor. She is now writing fantasy, which involves a lot more magic! When she's not writing she can be found herding cats and small people at her home in London. Th...

  • Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren has been a teacher and worked in lots of different offices, but she likes writing best, as well as walking in the woods, cheese, orchids, going to the movies, and reading as many books as she can. She is the author of Prisoner of Ice and Snow and its sequel Seeker of the Crown. She...

  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

    Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and has always written around her day job, starting out as a hairdresser in London’s West End, then moving on to a science degree, postgraduate studies and work in the fields...

  • Colm Field

    Colm Field

    Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happiest when he's excitedly writing a new story on his rusty old phone and his favourite mode of transport is walking, so obviously his debut children's novel is about high-s...

  • Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He was a teacher for many years and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland, before studying creative writing at the University of Glasgow. His novel When Mr Dog Bites was shortlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal. The Bombs That B...

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart was raised in a small house full of books in the south-east of Ireland. She has a degree in Medieval English and has had many careers (including butcher, bookseller and university lecturer). She now lives in County Meath, near Dublin, with her husband, their daughter and an ever-...

  • Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people.  The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by The Night Animals.  Her YA debut Outside (Penguin) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2020, shortlisted for Mslexia's Children's Novel Award, and longlisted for the Bat...