Meet the author

Amy Sparkes.

Writer · United Kingdom

Amy Sparkes: author of the House at the Edge of Magic series, whose fast, funny fantasy adventures are a reliable draw for eight-to-eleven-year-olds who love magical chaos.

Amy Sparkes is a British children's author who grew up by the sea in Eastbourne and began writing stories, poems and plays as a child, publishing her first poem at thirteen. She writes for children of all ages and is best known for her House at the Edge of Magic series, brisk, funny fantasy adventures beginning with the title of the same name and continuing through The Tower at the End of Time and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond. In the corpus she opens a new fantasy with The Unchosen One, in which Tassie is named the Chosen One and promptly decides destiny has picked the wrong girl, setting off with her best friend and a griffin to find a replacement before her fate catches up with her. Fast, funny and full of magical chaos, Sparkes's adventures are a reliable draw for eight-to-eleven-year-olds who love quests and reluctant heroes.