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Nick Green

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Nick Green grew up in the south east of England, but eventually escaped to study in Edinburgh, where he spent more time writing than studying.
He now lives in Hertford, where he spends more time writing than living.His other talents include sword fighting and being able to miaow like a cat.
He is married with two sons and two, or possibly three cats (it’s complicated). In another life he would have been an actor or a musician.

Catherine MacPhail

Catherine MacPhail

Catherine MacPhail is the award-winning author of more then twenty novels, including Roxy’s Baby (2005), A Kind of Magic (2001) Fighting Back (1998) and Run, Zan, Run (1994).
The first of the Granny Nothing series is reissued by Strident due to popular demand from teachers, librarians and schoolchildren.
It was originally published by Scholastic in 2003, and by BBC audio books in 2004.

Catherine has vast experience of presenting at festivals, book events and writers’ residencies. She has participated in workshops on writing for both children and adults.
She recently assisted feeder primary schools on vibrant projects related to her work, including overseeing graffiti art for her novel Tribes (2004) and the building of a wigwam for Fugitive (1999).

She lives in Greenock.

Books By Catherine MacPhail:

Granny Nothing

Emma Barnes

Emma Barnes

Award-winning author Emma Barnes grew up in Edinburgh and studied at Cambridge.
Her books have been translated into several languages and broadcast on BBC radio.
She regularly visits schools, festivals and libraries, sharing her passion for books and reading.
Emma Barnes lives in Leeds with her husband and young daughter.

Books By Emma Barnes:

Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher

John Ward

John Ward

John Ward was born in Clydebank, raised in Perth, schooled in Dundee and educated in Edinburgh, where he studied philosophy then taught English at the Royal High School. He later moved to Inverness and taught at the College there before becoming a writer.

His previous novels The Secret of the Alchemist, The Stone of Sorrow and City of Desolation were widely translated.

He now lives in Perth once more, with his wife and a
Sunbeam bicycle. He has two daughters and two sons.

Books By John Ward:

The Comet’s Child

Hazel Allan

Hazel Allan

Bree McCready and the Half-Heart Locket is the debut novel from Hazel Allan.

Hazel previously worked with underprivileged children as part of the Government’s Early Intervention Programme, which was established to tackle the problem of low literacy levels. She has also worked with children on the verge of exclusion from secondary school, and has a keen interest in literacy issues.

Hazel is a confident and natural storyteller and uses storytelling as a way to engage children and to stimulate interest in reading and books.

Hazel will be taking part in a publicity tour when Bree McCready and the Half-Heart Locket is published by Strident in 2009.

Hazel Allan lives in Edinburgh with her young son.

Visit Hazel’s Blog

Books By Hazel Allan:

Bree McCready and the Half-Heart Locket

Gillian Philip

Gillian Philip

Gillian Philip was born in Glasgow and has been writing all her life, starting with short but frenetic novels about Captain Scarlet and The Man From UNCLE (having massive crushes on both). She has worked as a barmaid, theatre usherette, record store assistant, radio presenter, typesetter, and political assistant to a parliamentary candidate. While living in Barbados, where her steadiest job was as a singer in an Irish bar, she took up writing professionally, and wrote many short stories for women’s magazines.

In 2001 she moved back to Scotland, and now lives in Morayshire with her husband Ian, twins Lucy and Jamie.

Books By Gillian Philip:

Bad Faith

Featured Titles

The Comet's Child
by John Ward

Is Fin the Comet's Child of the ancient prophecy? To learn the truth, he must travel far from home and all that is safe...

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-12-9
£7.99
August 11th 2009
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The Comet's Child

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Bree McCready and the Half Heart Locket by Hazel Allan

Twelve year old Bree McCready has a mission: she has just one night to save the world!

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-11-2
£6.99
August 11th 2009
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and the Half Heart Locket

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Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher by Emma Barnes

Jessica's mother is becoming a professional witch! Not if Jessica has anything to do with it...

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-10-5
£5.99
June 30th 2009
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