Beverley Birch

Beverley Birch has written more than 40 critically acclaimed books, from picture books and novels to science biographies and retellings of Shakespeare. Beverley is in the top 10 per cent of all authors borrowed in UK libraries and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

She grew up in Kenya in the transition years from colony to Kenyan independence, and came to England for the first time to study for A' levels. She travelled widely in Africa, America and Europe, before graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Economics and Sociology. 

Beverley combines her writing with an editing career, commissioning children’s fiction at Hodder Children’s Books. There she works with authors such as David Almond, Catherine Fisher, Tanith Lee and Rachel Anderson. She is married to photographer Nick Birch, and has two grown-up daughters.