Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a schoolteacher and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits to talk to children about writing.

In this interview she talks to Nikki Gamble about War, Peace and the practice of Peace Weaving.

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Julia Donaldson is one of the UK’s best-loved children’s authors. Her award-winning collaborations with Axel Scheffler include the modern classic The Gruffalo and its irresistible sequel The Gruffalo's Child. Julia also writes children’s plays and songs, and runs regular storytelling workshops.

Here she talks to Write Away about her rollicking, rh ...

Angela Barrett is widely regarded as one of this country's finest illustrators. She won the 1989 Smarties Book Prize for Can It Be True? and the 1991 WH Smith Illustration Award for The Hidden House. In addition, she has been shortlisted three times for the Kurt Maschler Award and once for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her other picture book titles include Beware Beware,...

Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father's backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland. Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book un ...

Frances Hardinge was born and grew up in Kent, England. From the age of four she dreamed about being a writer. Frances studied at Oxford University and was the founder member of a writers’ workshop there. Her writing career was launched after she won a short story competition. Shortly after winning she wrote Fly by Night and showed it to a publisher after pressure from a friend, ...

Tim Lott was born in 1956 in Southall, Middlesex, England and studied Politics and History at the London School of Economics. As well as journalism, he has worked in publishing and broadcasting, and was editor of the London listings magazine City Limits. He talks here to Nikki Gamble about his recently published novel for children, Fearless.

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Inbali Iserles reveals her lifelong affection for animals and talks to Write Away about her first novel, The Tygrine Cat.

Inbali was born in Jerusalem but moved with her family to Cambridge at the age of three when her father was offered a research fellowship at Kings College. Obviously destined to be a writer from a young age, she recalls, ‘At the age of eight, I ...

Rick Riordan reveals a long held passion for Greek mythology and shares some of his approaches to writing with Nikki Gamble.

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Rick Riordan is a teacher and a writer, and has won many awards for his mystery novels for adults. He says that the idea for ...

Linda Press Wulf talks to Nikki Gamble about the family story behind her novel The Night of the Burning.

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Linda Press Wulf has worked as an editor, journalist, and English teacher. Born in South Africa and resident at one time or another of Canada, Japan and Israel, s ...

Kevin Brooks talks to Nikki Gamble about his latest novel, Being, and explains why violence is often a necesary element in his stories.

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