Simon Farnaby has written and starred in some of the UK’s best-loved family TV shows such as Horrible Histories and Ghosts as well as the blockbuster films Paddington and Paddington 2. He has also appeared in the Sky TV series Yonderland and on the big screen he [...]
April 27, 2021
Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE was the third Children’s Laureate 2003-05, and is one of the Nation’s best-loved storytellers who has written about a hundred and fifty books for children including the bestselling title War Horse and award-winning titles Private Peaceful, Kensukes’s Kingdom and King [...]
April 8, 2021
Alexander McCall Smith CBE, known affectionately to his friends as ‘Sandy’, is unquestionably one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the UK and abroad before turning his [...]
October 27, 2020
Katherine Woodfine is a real children’s literature champion. Until 2015 she was Arts Project Manager for Booktrust, where she project-managed the Children’s Laureateship and YALC, the UK’s first Young Adult Literature Convention, curated by Malorie Blackman. She was a co-founder of Down the Rabbit [...]
October 16, 2020
