Kevin Brooks (Author)

Kevin Brooks, author of the young adult novels Martyn Pig, Lucas, Kissing the Rain, Candy, and The Road of The Dead, was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon. After school, he moved to London and tried to become a rock star. The book he would...

Melvin Burgess (Author)

Melvin Burgess, award-winning young adult fiction author and writer of the Billy Elliot novelisation for Chicken House, was born in 1954 in Twickenham, but grew up in Sussex and Berkshire. The book he would most like to have written is The Memoirs...

Eireann Corrigan (Author)

Eireann Corrigan, author of Accomplice, was born in 1977. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. She currently lives in New Jersey with her kitten Sumo.

Sharon Dogar (Author)

Sharon Dogar, author of Waves and Falling, was born in 1962 just outside Oxford, where she now lives. Among her favourite books are To Kill a Mockingbird, Skellig and Where the Wild Things Are. Her advice for aspiring authors? ‘Read a lot...

Zoran Drvenkar (Author)

Zoran Drvenkar, author of Tell Me What You See, was born in Croatia in 1967, and moved to Berlin with his parents at the age of three. He has worked as a fulltime author since 1989, and now lives in a renovated corn mill near the German capital. He...

Emily Gale (Author)

Emily Gale, author of Girl, Aloud, was born in London in 1975. Her nickname as a child was Kojak (for younger readers, that is a 70s television show about a big bald man who sucked lollipops and solved crime). She once very nearly trod dog poo in...

C.J. Skuse (Author)

C.J. Skuse, author of Pretty Bad Things, was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. Loves: graphic novels, 1980s sitcoms, Gummy Bears and malamutes. Hates: omelettes, carnivals and coughs. The book C.J. would most like to have written is...

Rachel Ward (Author)

Rachel Ward, author of Numbers, grew up in Bookham, Surrey. After school she studied Geography at Durham University and, combined working for a number of local authorities with raising a family. The book she would most like to have written is The...