Author
Simon Singh
Simon Singh is a science journalist and TV producer. Having completed his Ph.D. at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow’s World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat’s Last Theorem for the Horizon series. In 1997, he published Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was a no 1 best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages. In 1999, he published The Code Book.
Sean Olin
Sean Olin is a master of suspenseful, nail-biting plots and Wicked Games is no exception. His novel Killing Britney was a 2005 ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
Sean Olin is also the author of Brother/Sister. He lives in New York City, but summers in a beach town that inspired the setting of the Wicked Games series.
Natasha Hastings
Natasha writes books about magic, secrets, and adventure for adults and children. The Frost Fair, her debut children’s novel, was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award. She studied History at Cambridge. How To Charm A Viscount is Natasha’s debut novel for adults.
Paul Durham
Paul works as a lawyer and lives in New Hampshire with his family and an enormous, bushy cat. He writes in an abandoned chicken coop at the edge of a swamp and keeps a tiny porcelain frog in his pocket for good luck.
Garth Nix
Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing’Hail the Conquering Hero Comes’ or possibly’Roll Out the Barrel’. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a boot full of books and a Silver-Reed typewriter. He is now an award-winning author and one of the most influential names in contemporary fantasy.
Theo
Theo was born in France in 1963. As a child he collected stamps, stones, and – like Oscar – dreams. Theo has worked in children’s television in the UK, France, Germany and Spain for more than ten years.
Julia Jarman
Julia Jarman was born in 1946, and lives in Bedford with her husband and three cats. She has three grown-up children who have all left home.