Beverley Birch

Beverley Birch is the author of more than forty books, from picture books and novels to science biographies and retellings of Shakespeare. All her books have received critical acclaim. She has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and is in the top ten per cent of all authors borrowed in UK libraries. Beverley grew up in Kenya, 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. After university she became an editor and in 1981 she began writing full-time. She is the author of ‘Rift’, several titles in Wayland’s ‘Shakespeare’s Tales’ and titles in Orion’s ‘Science Stories’ series.