Authors

  • Renee Watson

    Renee Watson

    Renee Watson is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author of the novels Piecing Me Together, What Momma Left Me and Watch Us Rise, co-written with Ellen Hagan. Renee is the founder of I, Too Arts Collective, a non-profit committed to nurturing under-represente...

  • CJ Haslam

    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...

  • Richard Harland

    Richard Harland

    Richard Harland was born in the north of England in the middle of the coldest winter ever recorded. He moved to Australia on a university scholarship, fell in love with it and stayed. Richard loves writing fantasy and science fiction for adults and children, and has won five Aurealis awards fo...

  • Richard Monte

    Richard Monte

    Richard Monte was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey and went to school in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. He studied History at the University of London, specialising in Eastern Europe. His first job was in journalism but, realising he wanted to be an author, he left to take up...

  • CJ Harper

    CJ Harper

    C.J. Harper is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing for Young People and a former Waterstone's children's bookseller. THE DISAPPEARED is her first novel.

  • Rick Riordan

    Rick Riordan

    Rick Riordan spent 15 years as a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 1997 he began publishing mystery novels for adults. His popular Tres Nevarre series has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Rick was inspir...

  • Ridley Pearson

    Ridley Pearson

    Ridley Pearson is a bestselling crime novelist whose work includes The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The First Victim and Parallel Lies. In 1991, he was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. Ridley also plays bass guita...

  • Rilla Alexander

    Rilla Alexander

    Rilla Alexander has been making books since she was two. She would tell the story to her mother who'd type it onto her pictures and bind them into books complete with a biography. But amongst a constant flurry of creative projects, Rilla started to leave a trail of unfinished ideas behind her....