Églantine Ceulemans

Joanna Nadin (Author)
Joanna Nadin is a winner of the Fantastic Book Award the Surrey Book Award Blue Peter 'Book of the Month' and Radio 4 Open Book 'Book of the Year'. She has been shortlisted for the Booktrust Best Book Award and Queen of Teen and Spies Dad Big Lauren and Me was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. In 2011 Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Joe All Alone was nominated for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Medal. She writes the Flying Fergus series with Sir Chris Hoy. Joanna previously worked as a policy writer for the Labour Party and a special adviser to the Prime Minister. She continues to freelance as a speechwriter and editor and lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Églantine Ceulemans (Illustrator)
Églantine Ceulemans was born in Belgium where she spent her childhood devouring comics before moving to France to study illustration. As well as drawing she loves riding her blue bicycle cooking (which she is not very good at) and cleaning windows (which she is very good at). Églantine lives in Lyon France.

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Joanna Nadin

Joanna Nadin (Author)
Joanna Nadin is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults including the bestselling Rachel Riley diaries the critically acclaimed Eden and Undertow and the Carnegie-nominated Joe All Alone now being adapted for television. A former broadcast journalist political speechwriter and special adviser to the Prime Minister she has a PhD on the concept of self in young adult literature and lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She lives in Bath with her daughter.

Anthony McGowan (Author)
Anthony McGowan is one of the most widely acclaimed young-adult authors in the UK. His books have won several major awards and been shortlisted for many more. He has also written highly regarded adult fiction as well as books for younger readers. He has a PhD on the history of beauty and has taught philosophy and creative writing. He lives in London with his wife and two children.