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Julia Eccleshare is a writer, broadcaster and lecturer. She was the Guardian's children's books editor until 2016.
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today.
Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Carnegie of Carnegies and the Whitbread Award, Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic It has sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 40 languages. He recently published the final novel in The Book of Dust trilogy which followed it. In 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Sam Leith is Literary Editor of The Spectator and had also written extensively for the Guardian, TLS, Financial Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail.
He was a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and has judged every other major UK literary award. His previous books include You Talkin’ To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump and Beyond and Write To The Point: How to be Clear, Correct, and Persuasive on the Page. The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading was A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024.