Lucy Christopher’s family moved from Cardiff to Melbourne, Australia when she was nine. She completed high school and a creative arts degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before returning to the UK in 2003 to do an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University. During the course she wrote the novel that later became Flyaway (first called The Lo ...

Alex Scarrow is an ex-rock musician, ex-computer games designer, who finally turned his hand to authorship; he’s written a number of adult novels for Orion, including A Thousand Suns, Write Review Recommend Print

At an early age, Michael Foreman uncovered a passion for drawing, and since illustrating his first children’s picture book 1961, he has become one of Britain’s best loved illustrators. The 50th Anniversary edition of ‘The General’ marks an exciting time for Foreman, a nomin ...

Graham Joyce is the author of adult novels and has won numerous awards for his writing, including four British Fantasy Awards and the 2003 World Fantasy Award for The Facts of Life. His ...

F E (Fiona) Higgins was born in London but grew up in Wicklow on the east coast of Ireland. After training as a primary teacher in Blackrock, near Dublin, she returned to London in the early 1990s to start her teaching career in Reception and later Year 5 classes in Harrow and west London. Between periods of teaching, she made and sold candles and latex moulds and returned to writing, which sh ...

Pete Johnson was born in Winchester. After studying English at Birmingham University, he worked as a teacher, film extra and a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. In this interview he talks to Nikki Gamble about fame, reality TV and his recent novel The TV Time Travellers.

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Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen. During this time, he did various jobs, from delivering papers to washing-up. He has won the Nottingham Children's Book Award and been commended for the Sheffield. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and li ...

Meg Rosoff grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, studied at Harvard University and Central St Martins School of Art and has lived in London since 1989. She worked as an advertising copywriter before taking two months’ unpaid leave from work in 2001 to find out if she could write a novel. She wrote a pony book, which she decided not to publish – “I loved pony sto ...