Linda Strachan

Linda Strachan had her first (and only) flying lesson in a small plane when she was a teenager, but decided she preferred to keep her feet on the ground. Unfortunately she failed her driving test twice, possibly because the examiner thought she was trying to drive her Mini like a rally car.
This may have been because she spent most of her time following her boyfriend to watch rallies or drive his own rally car.

Before becoming a writer she worked as a model, a medical lab technician and a fashion buyer. She likes dogs, painting pictures on walls, artichokes, olives and chocolate, but prefers writing to almost anything else.

Books By Linda Strachan:

Spider

Dead Boy Talking

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Paul Biegel

The author of more than fifty books for children, Paul Biegel was one of Europe’s most acclaimed and best-loved storytellers. He was born in Bussum, the Netherlands, in 1926, the youngest of nine children.

Although his ambition was to become a pianist he studied law, and after a period of living in the United States he returned to the Netherlands and found work as the writer of a widely circulated comic strip. The experience inspired him to write his first novel, The Golden Guitar, which was published in 1960. The King of the Copper Mountains followed in 1965 and was named Children’s Book of the Year. The Gardens of Dorr (1969), The Little Captain (1971), The Twelve Robbers (1972), and more recently Night Story (1992) and The Soldier-Maker (1994) are amongst his most famous works.

He died in October 2006.

Books By Paul Biegel:

The King of the Copper Mountains

D A Nelson

Dawn Nelson was born in the East End of Glasgow and spent her very early years in Shawlands before the family moved to Neilston, where Dawn and her two sisters grew up.

On leaving school, Dawn became a trainee reporter, working for various newspapers in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.

Dawn has always written and still has a file of books she wrote as a child. She loves books and her favourite pastime is sitting in a large bookstore, cup of tea and muffin to hand, reading a fantastic new novel. She lives with her husband and two young children.

Books By D A Nelson:

DarkIsle

DarkIsle: Resurrection

Keith A Charters

Keith was born in Edinburgh in 1965, moving to Bearsden, near Glasgow, when he started secondary school. He studied at Strathclyde University before moving to England to work, mostly in the financial sector, before he decided to pursue his dream of becoming an author.

His first hilarious adventure novel for ages 9-early teens, Lee and the Consul Mutants, was published in 2004.

It went on to grab the no.1 spot in the The Herald’s Children’s Bestsellers chart in January 2006, at the same time as his second novel, Lee Goes For Gold, took the no.4 position. 2007 brought the launch of Lee’s Holiday Showdown.

Books By Keith A Charters:

Lee on the Dark Side of the Moon

Lee’s Holiday Showdown

Lee Goes For Gold

Lee And The Consul Mutants