| Peter J. Murray | THE DOOMSDAY TRAIL | £5.99 0340893052 |
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 | Peter Murray was born in 1951 and brought up on a council estate in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He trained as a metallurgist and graduated with a Masters Degree from Cambridge University. After working as a teacher for many years, Peter has now turned his hand to writing full time and visiting schools. Peter lives in North Yorkshire and is married with two grown−up sons. |  | | Read an Extract from The Doomsday Trail |
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| Robert Muchamore | THE KILLING | £5.99 0340894334 |
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 | Robert Muchamore was born in Islington in 1972. He still lives there, and works as a private investigator. He was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephews’ complaints about the lack of anything for them to read! CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert’s first book and recently won the Red House Children’s Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category. |  | | Read an Extract from The Killing |
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| Sarra Manning | PRETTY THINGS | £5.99 0340883723 |
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 | Sarra Manning is a teen queen extraordinaire. She spent five years working on the now sadly defunct J17, first as a writer and then as Entertainment Editor. She then joined the launch team of teen fashion bible Ellegirl, which she later went on to edit and has consulted on a wide range of youth titles including Bliss, The Face and More. Sarra is now acting editor of What To Wear magazine, as well as writing the Shop Bitch column for Time Out. She’s also been a regular contributor to ELLE, The Guardian, ES Magazine, Seventeen, Details and Heat. Currently finishing her fifth title for Hodder’s Bite list, Pretty Things for publication in 2005 with a sixth book, Lost, to follow, Sarra lives in North London with her white Scottie dog, Frank Sinatra. |  | | Read an Extract from Pretty Things |
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| Kenneth Oppel | SKYBREAKER | £8.99 0340878576 |
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 | Kenneth Oppel wrote his first novel at the age of 15, and enterprisingly sent it to his favourite writer, Roald Dahl. Publication soon followed, and since then he has written more than a dozen books, including an adult novel, The Devil’s Cure, and the bestselling fantasy novels, Sunwing and Silverwing, for which he won many prizes in his native Canada. He now lives and works in Toronto with his wife and two young children. His book ’Silverwing‘ was the winner of the Mr Christie’s Book Award, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award, and the Blue Heron Award. |  | | Read an Extract from Skybreaker |
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| Emma Thomson | FELICITY WISHES 13 SPOOKY SLEEPOVER | £3.99 0340902981 |
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