Tanya Landman runs Storybox Theatre, a touring puppet theatre for children, with her husband Rod Burnett. She is the author of the junior novel Waking Merlin (9781406302509) and its sequel Merlin's Apprentice (9781406302011); two novels about William Popidopolis, The World's Bellybutton (9781406300895) and The Kraken Snores (9781406307061); and a series for younger children, Flotsam and Jetsam (9781844281190), Flotsam and Jetsam and the Stormy Surprise (9781406302806) and Flotsam and Jetsam and the Grooof (9781406307054). She has also written two novels for teenagers, Apache (9781406303315) and The Goldsmith's Daughter (9781406307078). Tanya has two children and lives in Devon.