War Girls

About Adele GerasAnne FineBerlie DohertyMary HooperMatt WhymanMelvin BurgessRowena HouseSally NichollsSufiya AhmedTheresa Breslin

ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over twenty-five years ago and has published more than 80 titles. Ithaka was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Chirldren's Book Award. She lives in Manchester with her husband and has two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren. Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Before his first novel he had short stories published and a play broadcast on Radio 4. He is now regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature having won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for his acclaimed novel Junk. Berlie Doherty began writing for children in 1983 after teaching and working in radio. She has written more than 35 books for children as well as for the theatre radio and television. Berlie has won the Carnegie Medal twice: in 1987 for GRANNY WAS A BUFFER GIRL and in 1992 for DEAR NOBODY. She has also won the Writer's Guild Children's Fiction Award for DAUGHTER OF THE SEA. Her work is published all over the world and many of her books have been televised. THERESA BRESLIN is the Carnegie Medal winning author of over forty books for children & young adults whose work has appeared on stage radio and TV. Her books are hugely popular with young people librarians and teachers. Remembrance her top selling YA novel of youth in WW1 has now been reissued to include Book Notes. The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. Divided City was shortlisted for ten book awards winning two outright. Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees and after school travelled the world working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel Ways to Live Forever won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons. Debut author Rowena House experienced war first-hand as a Reuters foreign correspondent in Africa. Her War Girls story won a competition run by Andersen Press for creative writing Masters students at Bath Spa University. Sufiya Ahmed was born in India and arrived in the UK as a baby. She lived in Bolton Lancashire before moving to London where she still lives. Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation a non-profit organisation to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children.