KIERA AZAR was born in Surrey, where she grew up acting, singing and songwriting, making her screen debut in the Netflix adaptation of Shadow And Bone. She studied biomedical science before she wrote her first book and decided to pursue her love of storytelling. Thorn Season is her first novel.
Freddie Alexander lives in Dublin with his wife, his son and, he suspects, a large family of mice. He is the author of the bestselling and delicious Mr Spicebag. This is his second book.
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat. She is also the co-author of What If It’s Us with Adam Silvera. A former clinical psychologist who specialised in working with children and teens, Becky lives with her family in Atlanta.
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Magda studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art before embarking on a series of solo art exhibitions. She has worked as an illustrator, designer and artist and in 1996 produced artwork for The Beatles Anthology in partnership with Peter Quinnell. She lives and works in London
Jodi Anderson was the creator of the proposal for ‘The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants’ and has written the upcoming novels, ‘Summer Boys’ and ‘May Bird and Ever After’. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and eats peaches, peach pie, and peach ice cream on a regular basis.
Tom Angleberger is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Origami Yoda series, as well as Fake Mustache and Horton Halfpott, both Edgar Award nominees, and the Qwikpick Papers series. He is also the author of the transportation picture book McToad Mows Tiny Island. Tom lives with his wife, Cece Bell, in Christiansburg, Virginia.
