Helen Brain is the author of over 30 books for children, and has contributed stories and plays to numerous school anthologies. Her teen novel, Tamara won an ATKV award. She has also published short stories for adults, and her highly acclaimed memoir, Here Be Lions was published by Oshun in 2006.

Helen is the tutor for the popular Basics of Creative Writing Course as well as the Write a Children's Book Course and the Creative Writing for High School Students Course.

You can read more about Helen at her own website.

Read our Interview with Helen 

Here be Lions	The Button Bottle	Carmen   Toetoeka	Doube Cross
Fly Cemetery	Be quiet! Sit still! Don't wriggle!	Not again Gogo	Opa se Kajvit
Sundays are the best days	Boorkewers	Captain Half Arse	Len and Ben
Let's do Cartwheels	Rockslide	Shapes		The Shepherd's Crook
Who's afraid of spiders?	Will and Joe