Authors Young Adult
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Brendan Kearney
Brendan Kearney lives and works by the sea in South West England with his little dog, Crumble. He has always loved drawing since he started scribbling as a child and feels very lucky to be able to draw for a living. He particularly enjoys drawing animals (especially sea life!) and making up st...
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BR Collins
B.R. Collins is 27 and based in Kent. She has won the Young National Poetry competition two years running and had two plays produced (one of which, a free adaptation of Trojan Women, was performed to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe). She trained as an actor at the London Acad...
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Beverley Birch
Beverley Birch spent her childhood roaming vast plains and deep forests near her home in East Africa, dreaming of becoming an intrepid explorer in fantastic, far-away places. Instead she became a writer, and explores people and places through her books. She travels widely, and says, "Wh...
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Bethany Christou
Bethany Christou is a children's illustrator and author based in the little village of Meesdon in the Hertfordshire countryside. She is a recent graduate from the Cambridge School of Art . Her picture book Slow Samson was highly commended for the Macmillan Picture Book Prize in 2016, as...
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Bernard Ashley
Bernard Ashley lives in Charlton, south east London, only a street or so from where he was born. He was educated at the Roan School, Blackheath and Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, Rochester. After his National Service in the RAF, Bernard trained to teach and specialized in...
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Berlie Doherty
Children's author Berlie Doherty was born in Liverpool in 1943. She went to school at Upton Hall Convent School and read English at the University of Durham. She has completed a postgraduate certificate in Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1966 and a postgraduate certificate in...
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Benji Davies
Benji Davies is an illustrator and animation director. From a young age he was often to be found painting at the kitchen table, a scene which can still be seen to this day. Benji studied animation at university, and has since worked on a diverse array of projects, from picture books and...
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Ben Newman
Ben Newman is an award-winning illustrator with a penchant for the bold and the bright, with vivid characters and 'Bauhaus fuzzy felt' style. Having graduated from the University of West England, Ben didn't immediately dive into the creative market. He instead spent time developing his...
