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- Tamara Macfarlane
As a child Tamara Macfarlane practically lived in Blackwell's Children's Bookshop in Oxford.

- Stephen Mackey
Stephen is fine artist and has been doing commercial work with Lip International since 1989.
- Eden Maguire
Eden Maguire lives part of the time in the US, where she enjoys the big skies and ice-capped mountains of Colorado.
- Geoffrey Malone
Geoffrey Malone spent most of his childhood in Africa, where he managed to avoid any formal education until the age of eleven.


- Jan Mark
Jan Mark has twice won the Carnegie Medal for her children's fiction as well as many other awards.



- L.S. Matthews
L.S. Matthews, a Goldsmiths' College graduate, worked briefly in publishing and then in education, before becoming a full-time writer.


- James Mayhew
James created his first Katie book 'Katie's Picture Show' over twenty years ago as a way to share his enthusiasm for art with children.

- Sam McBratney
Sam McBratney is the best-selling author of Guess How Much I Love You? and numerous other books.
- Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean has written over 140 books and plays for both adults and children, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan, which was one of the most talked about and successful children's titles of 2006.

- Sarah McConnell
Sarah McConnell grew up in the Leicestershire countryside and spent her childhood drawing on every surface she could find, from the footpath in her parent's garden, to tiny storybooks that she kept under her pillow.

- Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her first novel, The Exiles.

- David McKee
While a student at Plymouth Art College, David began selling his cartoon drawings to newspapers.
- Mary McQuillan
Mary McQuillan has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award twice - the first time for her very first picture book 'Who's Poorly, Too' written by FCBG winner Kes Gray and the second for Cluck O'Clock, again with Kes.

- David Melling
David Melling has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Book Award.


- Lee Monroe
Lee Monroe was born in London, but spent a short time living by the sea with her family when she was a teenager.
- Inga Moore
Inga began illustrating while she was still at school where she had a constant and irresistible urge to liven up boring passages of Latin with cartoons, likewise physics and chemistry tests.
- Teresa Moorey
Teresa Moorey is a counsellor, astrologer and author of over forty books on witchcraft and related subjects.




- Robert Muchamore
Robert Muchamore was born in Islington in 1972 and spent thirteen years working as a private investigator.









