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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor was born and grew up in South Africa but in 1970 made his home in Britain. He has been a Foreign Correspondent for The Times, the Observer and the Economist in Africa, Australia and the Pacific.
Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex.