Authors Young Adult
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Claire Barker
Claire Barker grew up reading stories and when she left school, did a degree in English and History (when she read more stories). Since then, she has been a secretary, a poodle groomer, a shop assistant, a puppeteer, an English tutor, a waitress, an illustrator and a primary school teaching as...
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CJ Haslam
C. J. (Chris) Haslam is the award-winning Chief Travel Writer at The Sunday Times, specialising in extreme adventure. He appears regularly on the BBC and has written three black comedy thrillers for adults. One of them, Twelve Step Fandango, was shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe award...
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Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell is a British radio DJ and stand-up comic, who presents the The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio weekday mornings. He has also written his first children's book called Radio Boy, about a boy who is desperate to become a DJ and starts his own radio show, i...
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Chris Wooding
Born in 1977, Chris Wooding grew up in an ex-mining town in the Midlands. Books provided his escape from the grim surroundings and by the time he was a teenager, Wooding had decided he wanted to be an author.He wrote while studying English Literature at the University of Sheffield and hi...
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Bruce Ingman is an internationally acclaimed award-winning author and illustrator. Born in Liverpool, he studied at the Royal College of Art. His first book, When Martha's Away, won the prestigious Mother Goose Award for the Best British Newcomer to Children's Picture Books (1996) and T...
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Brothers Etherington
Robin and Lorenzo Etherington began their creative partnership at the tender ages of 8 and 5 respectively. Hunched side by side over the kitchen table they would draw furiously, their inspiration ignited by the adventures of Asterix and those indomitable Gauls. However it soon became clear to...
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Britta Teckentrup
Britta Teckentrup is an award winning illustrator, author and fine artist. She was born in Hamburg, growing up in a town called Wuppertal. She moved to London in 1988 to study illustration and fine art at St Martin's College and the Royal College of Art. Britta is the author and illustr...
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Brian Wildsmith
Brian Wildsmith was raised in the mining village of Penistone, near Sheffield. He won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, where he studied for three years, then spent his National Service teaching music at the Royal Military School of Music. After his time in the Army, he became an...
