Lauren St John grew up surrounded by horses, cats, dogs and a pet giraffe on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe and became a prolific writer, publishing over 25 books. Her childhood in Africa inspired her bestselling Animal Healer series (Orion, 2006-2015) and One Dollar Horse series (Orion, 2012-2014), as well as her memoir,… Read more »
Author type: Children's and YA
Alom Shaha
Alom Shaha is a father of two and a Physics teacher at a comprehensive school in London. His latest book Why Don’t Things Fall up? (Hodder, 2023) uses apparently simple questions asked by children as starting points for a tour of the “big ideas” of science from his unique perspective. It was followed by How to… Read more »
Krystal Sutherland
Krystal Sutherland was born and raised in Townsville, Australia, a place that has never experienced winter. Since then she’s lived in Sydney, where she edited her university’s student magazine; Amsterdam, where she worked as a foreign correspondent; and Hong Kong. Krystal has also interned at Bloomsbury Publishing and was shortlisted for the Queensland Young Writers… Read more »
Meg Rosoff
Meg is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of Homerton College, Cambridge. She is a regular on BBC Radio and presented a half hour segment of Artsnight for BBC2 TV. In 2004 her first novel, How I Live Now, was published by Penguin to a blaze of universal acclaim. It sold in… Read more »
Linda Newbery
Linda Newbery has written widely for all ages. Her debut YA novel, Run with the Hare (1988), was about a sixth-form girl who becomes involved with an Animal Rights group (Linda is a passionate advocate for an animal welfare and a vegetarian since her twenties). In 2000, she moved to David Fickling Book with The Shell… Read more »
Joanne Owen
Joanne was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and read Anthropology and Archaeology with Social and Political Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge. She writes for children and more recently for Rough Guides. Her first two novels (Orion Children’s Books) are fantastical folklore-infused adventures set in Prague. Published in 2008, Puppet Master was critically acclaimed (‘Owen is… Read more »
Annabel Pitcher
Annabel Pitcher graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English literature and an ambition to be a children’s author. Her sensational first novel My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (Orion, 2011) won the Branford Boase award for most outstanding debut, and was shortlisted for several major national awards, including the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the… Read more »
Andrew Prentice
Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil are the authors of a rollicking adventure and time travel middle grade novel, Black Arts, featuring young Jack the Cutpurse and Beth Sharkwell, daughter of the master of thieves in 1590s London (David Fickling Books, 2012). The sequel, Devil’s Blood, was published in 2016. Both authors live in London.
Tom Moorhouse
Tom Moorhouse is a strange hybrid being, half children’s author and half research ecologist at Oxford University’s Zoology Department (an entity probably not called an “authologist”). Over the years he has met quite a lot of wildlife. Most of it tried to bite him. He loves hiking up mountains, walking through woods, climbing on rocks… Read more »
Katy Moran
Katy is a former editor at Scholastic and now lives in Shropshire with her husband and three sons. She is a Carnegie-nominated author of six YA novels published by Walker Books. Her brilliant first novel, Bloodline, was an Amazon New Voices title, and shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2009. Bloodline Rising and Spirit Hunter… Read more »