Nicola Morgan

[1] Morgan wanted to become a writer after leaving university, but to earn a living first became a teacher, working in a small school in London where she taught English.

Morgan set up a website, The Child Literacy Centre, to help parents help their children with all aspects of reading.

[1] By 1999, Morgan had published dozens of best-selling home-learning books, while still working towards publication as a novelist.

Her first novel, Mondays are Red, was published to acclaim in 2002 and was followed the next year by Fleshmarket, which became widely read and studied in Scottish schools.

By 2010, she had published nine novels, all but one for teenagers, and five non-fiction books, including the internationally acclaimed Blame My Brain.