Authors
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Sharon Gosling
Sharon Gosling always wanted to be a writer. She started as an entertainment journalist, writing about television series such as Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. Her first novel was published under a pen name in 2010. Sharon and her husband live in a very small cottage in a very remote villa...
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Chris MacGregor
"I am currently the Commanding Officer of The Royal Wessex Yeomanry, the UK's Armoured Reserve. I have two children, Ellie and Ben. Before I departed for a tour of Iraq, I recorded a story for them so that they could hear my voice whenever they wished. They missed me very much. Fortunately, th...
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Sheila Agnew
Sheila Agnew was born in New York and grew up in Dublin with her sister and two brothers. After graduating, she practiced as a lawyer in London, Sydney and New York and worked in such far-flung places as Accra, Cairo and Bratislava. Sheila had wanted to be a writer since she was seven a...
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Sheila O'Flanagan
Sheila is an ex-bond dealer and financial journalist whose novels have all been immediate No 1 Irish bestsellers. Sheila also writes a weekly column for the Irish Times. Her books have been described 'as necessary to women as chocolate, and just as addictive!' Her last three novels have...
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Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes was born and grew up in West Kirby, Wirral, near Liverpool in 1927 and she trained at Liverpool Art School and at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, where she later became a visiting tutor. She became an illustrator after leaving Art School and has been doing this ever sin...
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Sif Sigmarsdottir
Sif Sigmasdottir is an author and a journalist from Iceland.Sif has been writing children's books for ten years and her novels for teenagers and young adults are bestsellers in Iceland. Her most recent book, Freya's Saga, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize, the most pre...
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Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson is well-known as a comic and an author of adult thrillers. He lived on the same estate as the young Harry Enfield and when Enfield's stand-up character Stavros was booked for 'Saturday Night Live', he invited Hickson and his friend Paul Whitehouse to write for him. The pair went...
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Simon Bartram
Simon Bartram studied Graphic Design, specialising in illustration, at Birmingham Polytechnic. He has gone on to write and illustrate a number of picture books, including Blue Peter Award-winner The Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob. Bob's Best-Ever Friend was nominated for the...
