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Sarah Crossan grew up in Dublin and London. Her books for children and teenagers have won many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CBI Book of the Year, the YA Book Prize, and the CLiPPA Poetry Award. Her first novel for adults, Here Is the Beehive, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year in the AN Post Irish Book Awards Sarah's novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She currently lives and works in East Sussex. Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. A poet, novelist and writer of short stories, she has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children and her novel, Trumpet, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. From 2016-21 she was the third modern Makar, the National Poet for Scotland. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford. A. L. Kennedy is a prolific writer of novels, short stories, non-fiction, plays and film scripts. She often features on R4 and is both an associate professor of creative writing and an occasional stand-up comedian. After over 30 years of writing for adults, she now also writes for children, including the hilarious Uncle Shawn series, illustrated by Gemma Correll, and most recently she abridged Charles Dickens' Great Expectations for middle-grade readers. She is the winner of multiple UK and international prizes, including the Costa Book of the Year Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. She lives in Scotland. Elizabeth Laird is a multi-award winning novelist, who has lived and worked in many parts of the world. She is married to the writer David McDowall.
Elizabeth's novels explore contemporary issues, some set in the UK and others in Kurdistan, Ethiopia, Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan and Jordan. She has written many picture books for younger children as well as retellings of folk tales. Her books have been translated into over 25 languages.
Elizabeth has travelled all over Ethiopia collecting folk stories, and helped to set up the Ethiopian Story Collecting Project. You can read some of the stories on www.ethiopianfolktalesforkids.com.
You can find out more about Elizabeth at www.elizabethlaird.co.uk. Author of the irreverant alternative guide to Politics - Politics Chris Riddell is one of the country's finest children's book illustrators, and was Children's Laureate from 2015-17. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal three times - for Pirate Diary, Gulliver's Travels and The Sleeper and the Spindle. He is a political cartoonist for the Observer and has collaborated with Paul Stewart on the extremely popular Edge Chronicles and Muddle Earth series. In recent years he has had success writing and illustrating his own books, including the Ottoline stories and Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse, which won a Costa Book Award - and he illustrated J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard. Tim Wynne-Jones is the accomplished author of numerous young adult novels, including The Emperor of Any Place, which earned seven starred reviews, Blink & Caution, winner of the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and The Uninvited. In 2012 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to literature. Tim Wynne-Jones lives in Ontario. |
