Authors Young Adult

  • Axel Scheffler

    Axel Scheffler

    Axel Scheffler was born in 1957 in Hamburg, Germany. At school, although always good at art, he never really considered a career in illustration. But long before he began his professional life, he had won his first drawing prize for an international chocolate company his prize was a cuddly lil...

  • Anthony McGowan

    Anthony McGowan

    Anthony Mcgowan was born in Manchester and was the second of what were to be five children. He now lives in London with his wife, author and fashion designer Rebecca Campbell, and their two young children. Both Anthony's parents were nurses and hoped that he would become a doctor. Howev...

  • Anthony Browne

    Anthony Browne

    Anthony Brown has won many prizes for his work, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Kurt Maschler Award (three times). In 2000 he received the highest international honour for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first...

  • Annie Dalton

    Annie Dalton

    Annie Dalton was born in Dorset and grew up in the country during the fifties. She claims she didn't intend to be a writer when she was young, but the discovery of a local library nourished her love of books from an early age. Annie studied at Warwick University and soon began to write....

  • Anne Fine

    Anne Fine

    Originally from Leicester, Anne Fine read Politics and History at Warwick University before training to be a teacher. She has also worked as an Information Officer for the charity Oxfam, and has two grown-up daughters. Anne Fine's work is characterised by humour and her extraordinary in...

  • Annabel Pitcher

    Annabel Pitcher

    Annabel Pitcher is an author and script writer from Yorkshire. She studied English at Oxford University before training as a teacher. She taught English at a local secondary school before being inspired to write. While on a round the world trip, she wrote her first novel, My Sister Live...

  • Annabel Karmel

    Annabel Karmel

    Annabel Karmel has been described as the 'Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver and Delia Smith of the nursery food world'. A trained Cordon Bleu cook, ANNABEL KARMEL is a leading author on cooking for toddlers and babies and has written several best-selling books on the subject. Her first book...

  • Ann Turnbull

    Ann Turnbull

    Ann Turnbull's first novel was published in 1974 and since then she has written over 30 books for children and young people of all ages. Her novels include 'Deep Water', 'A Long Way Home' and 'Pigeon Summer', which was was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling...