Authors Young Adult

  • Kelly McCaughrain

    Kelly McCaughrain

    Kelly McCaughrain lives in Belfast where she works with disabled students in further education. Her debut novel, Flying Tips for Flightless Birds, won the Northern Ireland Book Award in 2019, and she was the Children's Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland 2019-2021. Kell...

  • Krystal Sutherland

    Krystal Sutherland

    Krystal Sutherland is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Hollow, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares and Our Chemical Hearts, which was adapted into a film by Amazon Studios. Her books have been published in more than 20 countries and nominated for the Carnegie Medal and...

  • Ann Sei Lin

    Ann Sei Lin

    Ann Sei Lin is a writer, librarian, and book nerd with a love for all things fantasy. Though London is now her home, she spent several years in Chiba, Japan, living in a rickety apartment block next to a rail station where the rush of the midnight train would make the walls shake. When not wri...

  • 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...

  • Samira Ahmed

    Samira Ahmed

    Samira Ahmed is the bestselling author of Love, Hate and Other Filters and as well as writing, has taught high school English and worked in education non-profits and on political campaigns. Samira was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like...

  • 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...

  • Namina Forna

    Namina Forna

    Namina Forna was born in Sierra Leone but emigrated with her family to the US in the 1990s, and has been travelling back and forth ever since.Namina has a MFA in film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA from Spelman...