Authors Teenagers

  • Hilary McKay

    Hilary McKay

    Hilary McKay is an award-winning author, having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel, The Exiles, and going on to win the Smarties and the Whitbread (now the Costa) Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan...

  • Geraldine McCaughrean

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. She became a full time writer in 1988.<br...

  • Anthea Simmons

    Anthea Simmons

    Anthea Simmons lives in Devon with her polydactyl cat, Caramac. After a  successful career in the City and a spell of teaching, she finally  knuckled down to write at the insistence of her son, Henry. She is the  author of Share, The Best Best Baby,<...

  • Anthony Kessel

    Anthony Kessel

    Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, academic and author. Since 2019 Anthony has been working in a national role as Clinical Director (National Clinical Policy) at NHS England and NHS Improvement. Anthony is an international authority on public health, a Trustee...

  • Laura Dockrill

    Laura Dockrill

    Laura Dockrill, a performance poet and novelist, has written her second book focusing on children's mental health.  The Dream House, a story about bereavement, follows Butterfly Brain (both published by Piccadilly Press) about memories and grief.  Laura...

  • Karen McCombie

    Karen McCombie

    Best-selling author Karen McCombie explores unexpected friendships in her latest novel, How to be a Human. Karen is a full-time writer but before that she worked for several teen magazines such as Just Seventeen, Bliss and Sugar in a variety roles - eve...

  • Patrice Lawrence: Happy Here

    Patrice Lawrence: Happy Here

    Patrice Lawrence was brought up in a Trinidadian-Italian family in Sussex, so had no other choice than to be a writer. She writes for adults, children, young people and any passing balls of flame that may be looking for a good read.

  • Bryony Pearce - Raising Hell

    Bryony Pearce - Raising Hell

    Bryony Pearce's new book Raising Hell (UcLan Publishing) is a darkly funny horror story about teenagers wh accidentally invite the 'dark side' into their lives.  Bryony always dreamed of being a writer. After leaving university, she temped while waiting for a job in publishing, but then found...