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Anu Kumar’s fiction for young adults include In the Country of Gold-digging Ants and Atisa and the Seven Wonders (both from Puffin); a book on Gandhi called The Mahatma and the Monkeys (Hachette, India). She has also written fiction for adults (Letters for Paul and The Dollmakers’ Island). Her stories have been awarded by The Little Magazine and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. She hopes one day her two-year-old daughter, Devyani, will enjoy reading her books too.

Dr Devika Rangachari is an award-winning children’s writer whose book, Queen of Ice, was on the White Raven list, won the Neev Young Adult Book Award and has been optioned to be made into a movie/ television series. She is also a historian who has conducted post-doctoral research on gender in early medieval Indian history. Devika is inordinately fond of reading (especially historical fiction), chocolates, potatoes, and exploring bookshops and libraries. She would happily spend her time among her four loves were it not for her lovely-but-stern editors who occasionally compel her to write.