Authors
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NM Browne
N.M. Browne lives in London. She was born in the North of England to Welsh parents. This background inspired a fascination with all things Celtic and an interest in how earlier societies survived the bleakness of a northern winter. In spite of strenuous practice she is quite unable to s...
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Non Pratt
After graduating from Trinity College Cambridge, Non Pratt became a book editor at Usborne, working on the bestselling Sticker Dolly Dressing and Things to Make and Do series. She lives in London with her husband and small(ish) child and writes full time. Trouble was her first novel, followed...
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Tom Becker
Tom Becker lives and works in London for a publisher but was born and grew up in Lancashire. He studied History at University before moving to London to find work - and to focus on his writing. He was just 26 when his first children's book, Darkside, was published and won the Waterstone's Chil...
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Ally Condie
Ally Condie received a degree in English Teaching from Brigham Young University and spent a number of years teaching high school English in Utah and in New York. She lives with her husband and three children near Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Allan Ahlberg
Allan Ahlberg is one of the most acclaimed authors of children's books, particularly in partnership with his late wife Janet. Together, they produced such classics as The Jolly Postman, Burglar Bill and Each Peach Pear Plum. Allan has now written around 150 titles for children including the pr...
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Alan Gibbons
Author Alan Gibbons shot to stardom when he won the Blue Peter Book Award for 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down' in 2000 with Shadow of the Minotaur, the first title in his Legendeer trilogy. Shadow of the Minotaur was also shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Although it narrowl...
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Alex Woolf
Alex Woolf is a published author of over eighty books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for young adults. His fiction writing credits include a time-warping science fiction trilogy, Chronosphere, and Aldo Moon and the Case of the Ghost at Gravewood Hall, about a teenage Victorian gh...
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Alexander Gordon Smith
Alexander Gordon Smith, 32, is best known as the author of the Escape From Furnace Series, made up of Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives and Execution. He also wrote The Inventors which was runner-up in the national Wow Factor Award and The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls, bo...
