Tag: writers

Gabrielle Williams Kate Bush made ‘Wuthering Heights’ required reading for every teenager worth her salt back in my day (it occurs to me that if I could get Kimbra and Goyte to write a song called ‘Beatle Meets Destiny’ or ‘The Reluctant Hallelujah’ – it’d up my sales hugely....

Simmone Howell When I think about books and my childhood, I see the cane bedside table on which all wonderful things were held: a portable radio, then later, a walkman, a jar of jelly crystals (for eating) and books. I was obsessed with memorising text from an early age...

Sherryl Clark Like many people, a book that I remember clearly was one of the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis – The Magician’s Nephew. It was the first book I ever owned, as it was a present from my older sister. It was a while later before I discovered...

Ben Chandler I grew up in a smallish town in the northeast of the USA that exists, more or less, in a forest. It’s the sort of place riddled with big red barns and three-hundred-year-old farmhouses. It had, and I’ve no reason to believe this has changed, an ancient,...

Michael Gerard Bauer The book I remember most fondly from my childhood would have to be Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. I’m not sure how old I was when I first read it, but I must have been quite young because I remember it as being my...

Foz Meadows Foz made a splash debut in 2010 with ‘Solace and Grief’, and followed it in 2011 with ‘The Key to Starveldt’, both powerful and moving horror/paranormal tales. From the moment my grandmother gave me the first book as a ninth birthday present, I was hooked on the...

Kate Constable Kate is the author of  the much  loved ‘The Chanters of Tremaris’ series. There is a very particular thrill in discovering a book that seems to have been written just for you and nobody else in the world. When I first read Peter’s Room in my early...

Justin D’Ath Justin  is the author of over 30 books for children and young adults, including the hugely popular Extreme Adventures series. I grew up in a house of books – well, three houses really, since the family moved twice as it grew larger; and the books went with...

Leanne Hall Whenever I’m in a second-hand bookshop, the first thing I always do is go to the children’s shelves and look for a copy of Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler. But I’m not looking for just any copy; it has to have the original...