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Ian Whybrow
Before he took up writing full time, Ian Whybrow spent most of his working life as Head of English in a secondary school. He received rave reviews for the first of THE SNIFF STORIES in 1989. Since then, Sniff has appeared in four books and an equal number of BBC radio broadcasts.
Manya Stojic
Stella Maidment
Stella Maidment has written story books, puzzle books, activity books and re-tellings of classics such as the ‘Tales of the Arabian Nights’.
Caroline Butler
Lady C was born and educated in South London. At James Allen's Girls' School the Home Economics teacher foresaw her "career" as a "raconteur", which may, or may not, be the same as writing "will come to no good", but she is trying.
Eamonn Sweeney
Eamonn Sweeney was born in 1968 in the nearly hurling-free county of Sligo - a deficiency remedied by his hurling-mad father from Kilkenny.
Posy Simmonds
Posy Simmonds is best known for her weekly cartoon strip which ran in the Guardian from 1977 to 1987. The collected cartoons were published as MRS WEBER'S DIARY, TRUE LOVE, PICK OF POSY, PURE POSY and MUSTN'T GRUMBLE.
Elen Caldecott
My favourite stories are ones where very ordinary people do very extraordinary things. These are the kind of stories I set out to write: real life, but with the promise of adventure.
Laura Beatty
Laura Beatty's debut novel POLLARD won the Authors' Club First Novel Award in 2009 and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
Caroline Waldegrave
Leith's School of Food and Wine was established in 1975 to provide professional training for career cooks and short courses for amateurs.