Alan Nolan lives and works in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. He has written and illustrated many books and comics for children and grown-ups, including Fintan’s Fifteen, Conor's Caveman and the Murder Can Be Fatal series.
JASON BROWNE is an illustrator at Buttonpress Publications, whose flagship title The Wren is Ireland’s longest-running small press comic book. In a rare moment when Jason isn’t working on The Wren or Buttonpress’s other books in the series – Artos, Thimble and Stoat – he contributes to projects at Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics. He lives in Dublin.
PAUL CARROLL is a writer, comic creator, workshop facilitator and podcaster from Dublin. He has been a recipient of the Agility Award and the Literature Project Award from the Arts Council, and took part in the Evolution Programme with the Irish Writers Centre in 2023. He is a founding member of Limit Break Comics and IrishComics.ie, and has worked within Irish fandom as part of Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention since 2021.
Marilyn Taylor was born and educated in England, and has an economics degree from London University. She was a school librarian in a Dublin secondary school for 16 years and a college librarian.
Her first novels for young adults were the Jackie and Kev trilogy, Could This Be Love, I Wondered? (1994), Could I Love a Stranger? and Call Yourself a Friend?.
Faraway Home was a new departure for Marilyn, having a strong historical basis and being set in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. It won the prestigious Bisto Book of the Year Award and was followed by 17 Martin Street, set in Dublin during The Emergency (as the Second World War was knows in Ireland). Both have been hugely popular with schools throughout Ireland and beyond.
