G. M. Linton

G.M. Linton found her way back to her first loves of reading and creative writing after decades of ignoring the two – and now enjoys nothing better than snatching time to read a good book and losing herself whilst imagining characters and storylines. She is particularly inspired by her parents, who arrived in Britain, from Jamaica, as part of the Windrush generation, in the 1950s.

Her debut, My Name is Sunshine Simpson, won The Week Junior Breakthrough Book Award and Wolverhampton Children's Book Award. G.M. was also shortlisted for the 2024 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and was the recipient of the Bright Lights Awards Ceremony (BLAC) Award for Services to Creative Writing. Her books have also been The Times newspaper's Children's Book of the Week and publishing and book trade publication The Bookseller's Book of the Month.

G.M. Linton lives with her family in the West Midlands.