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Michael Broad
Michael is 38 and lives in London. He studied illustration at Portsmouth University earning 1st Class Honors and now works solely on writing and illustration books for children of all ages.
Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is an award-winning mystery writer. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.
Russell Julian
Originally from Derbyshire, Russell has made his way via Cambridge to North-West London where he lives with his beautiful partner and three girls in a charming cottage (30’s semi) deep in the magical Crickle Wood.
Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. She’s always loved stories, and spent her childhood trying to make real life work like it does in books.
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Simon Puttock
Simon was born in New Zealand and dragged up all over the place. He now lives in Edinburgh with no cats, hamsters or goldfish. As a child he lived by the (warm, Caribbean) sea, and I would like to live by the (any old) sea again.
Sophie McKenzie
Sophie McKenzie is a teen fiction writer who has also produced books for younger children and who now writes for an adult audience as well.
William Nicholson
William Nicholson was born in 1948, and grew up in Sussex and Gloucestershire. He was educated at Downside School and Christ’s College, Cambridge, and then joined BBC Television, where he worked as a documentary film maker.
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Alexander Fircks is in his early forties. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and has two sons. THE LORD OF SONG is his first novel, set in contemporary Zimbabwe.