Shades of Scarlet

Anne Fine has won the Smarties Book Prize, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal (twice), and has twice been voted Children's Author of the Year. Her books include The Jamie and Angus Stories, Jamie and Angus Together, Jamie and Angus Forever, The Haunting of Pip Parker, How to Cross the Road and Not Turn Into a Pizza, Nag Club, Under a Silver Moon, Party Club and The Only Child Club. She is the author of Madame Doubtfire, which was made into the film Mrs Doubtfire, and also writes for adults. She lives in Barnard Castle, County Durham.

Sophie Aldred was born in Greenwich, England and brought up in Blackheath, South East London. She studied drama at university and spent time with children’s drama companies in small productions before she became Ace in the immensely popular Doctor Who in 1987. Aldred has had a varied and busy television career in children’s programming, as a voiceover artist for television advertisements and providing voices for animated series such as Bob the Builder, Sergeant Stripes and Dennis and Gnasher.