Kit Downes

Kit Downes has just finished his final year at the University of Wales, Bangor, studying English and History. He spends much of his free time searching for “good” stories and writing his own when he can’t find enough. The idea for Zal and Zara and the Great Race of Azamed came to him in a café in Hay-on-Wye in the summer after leaving school, and he finished writing it in his first term at university. When he graduates, Kit plans to keep writing and travelling so as to avoid getting a real job for as long as possible.

Patrick Downes

Nick Dowson

Malachy Doyle

An author of books for children of all ages, whose work has been inspired by the folk tales of Ireland and Wales.

Flavia Z. Drago

Ursula Dubosarsky

Joyce Dunbar

Joyce is the author of Oddly, The Monster Who Ate Darkness, and Shoe Baby and Pat-a-Cake Baby, which were both illustrated by her daughter, Polly.

Polly Dunbar

One of the UK's most exciting picture book talents, author-illustrator of the award-winning Penguin.

Daniel Duncan