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      • Lessons
        • Year 1/2 Lessons
        • Sarah McIntyre - The New Neighbours
        • Oliver Jeffers - Here We Are
        • Alex T Smith - Foxy & Egg
        • Mini Grey - The Last Wolf
        • Mini Grey - Toys In Space
        • Mini Grey - Hermelin
        • Year 3/4 Lessons
        • Philip Reeve - Oliver and The Seawigs
        • Philip Reeve - Pugs of The Frozen North
        • Jacqueline Wilson - Lizzie Zipmouth
        • Michael Morpurgo - Pinocchio
        • Michael Morpurgo - The Fox & The Ghost King
        • Michael Morpurgo - The Dancing Bear
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        • Jamia Wilson - Young, Gifted and Black
        • Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
        • Anthony Horowitz - Stormbreaker
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        • Cressida Cowell - How To Train A Dragon
        • Michael Morpurgo - The Wreck of Zanzibar
        • Jacqueline Wilson - The Illustrated Mum
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        • Alexander Gordon Smith
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        • Anne Cassidy
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        • Andy Mulligan
        • Andy Riley
        • Andy Seed
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        • Anthony McGowan
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        • Catherine Johnson
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        • Em Lynas
        • Emily Lockhart
        • Emma Carroll
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        • Frederick Forsyth
        • Geraldine McCaughrean
        • Gill Lewis
        • Gillian Cross
        • Guy Bass
        • Henry Winkler
        • Holly Bourne
        • Holly Webb
        • Isabel Thomas
        • Jacqueline Wilson
        • Jamia Wilson
        • John Kane
        • Joseph Coelho
        • Joshua Seigal
        • Julian Clary
        • Karen McCombie
        • Kate Pankhurst
        • Kieran Larwood
        • Lauren Child
        • Matt Goodfellow
        • Maz Evans
        • Michaela Morgan
        • Michael Morpurgo
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        • Nick Butterworth
        • Oliver Jeffers
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        • Literacy resource development - Nadine Williamson Director of Literacy - LEO Academy Trust
        • Literacy resource development - Christopher Perrott Vice Principle (Curriculum) - Cheam Common Junior Academy
        • Literacy resource development - Isabella Adams Cheam Park Farm Primary School
        • Website design and construction - John Laker AdEPT Education
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Anthony McGowan

Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester in 1965. He went to school in Leeds. He has an M.Phil in philosophy and a PhD on the history of the concept of beauty. He has worked as a nightclub bouncer, civil servant, and Open University tutor in philosophy. He now lives in London. He is married to the fashion designer and novelist Rebecca Campbell. They have two children.

His debut thriller, Stag Hunt, was published to wide critical acclaim by Hodder & Stoughton in 2004. An equally praised sequel, Mortal Coil, came out in 2005.

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Anthony McGowan Interview

Anthony McGowan

Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester in 1965. He went to school in Leeds. He has an M.Phil in philosophy and a PhD on the history of the concept of beauty. He has worked as a nightclub bouncer, civil servant, and Open University tutor in philosophy. He now lives in London. He is married to the fashion designer and novelist Rebecca Campbell. They have two children.

His debut thriller, Stag Hunt, was published to wide critical acclaim by Hodder & Stoughton in 2004. An equally praised sequel, Mortal Coil, came out in 2005. In the same year, Random House published Hellbent, his first novel for teenagers, described by the Times as 'a brilliantly nauseating thriller'.

It was picked by Anthony Horowitz as his book of the year in the Daily Telegraph. A second young-adult book, Henry Tumour was published in April 2006. According to The Guardian, 'Henry Tumour is a boisterous, anarchic, frequently vulgar comedy about a boy with a brain tumour. It is very, very funny. It is also a wise, sensitive and questioning novel about the opposing forces that make us what we are.' Henry Tumour won the 2006 Booktrust Teenage prize, the 2007 Catalyst Award, and has been shortlisted for several major awards.

Anthony McGowan's highly controversial and topical young-adult novel, The Knife That Killed Me, was released on April 3 2008. It deals in a hard-hitting, intensely realised way with the problems of knife crime and youth violence. Of it, Meg Rosoff (2007 Carnegie Prize winner) has written, 'Every writer hates to hear the words "stunning new talent" applied to someone else, but in the case of Anthony McGowan nothing else will do.

Anthony McGowan has also written feature articles for The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and The Evening Standard, on subjects ranging from the nightmare of being a relative failure married to a superwoman, to travel and the dangers of hunting rats with a crossbow.

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