Tamara Macfarlane

Tamara Macfarlane is the owner of Tales on Moon Lane Children’s Bookshop (Winner of the Children’s Bookseller of the Year award at The British Book Awards 2020), Moon Lane Education, and Moon Lane Ink CIC. She has over 15 years’ experience working with children and schools, and combines running the two bookshops with writing children’s books. She currently has series with Hodder, Simon and Schuster, Troika Books, and Puffin. Tamara has judged many high-profile book awards, and is currently Vice Chair of the World Book Day committee.


Alessandra Fusi was born in Rome, where she attended the IED Institute of Art and Design, graduating in Illustration and Multimedia Animation. She has worked as an illustrator of children's books, puzzle games, and stationery products. As a painter, she has exhibited her work in various solo and collective art shows across Italy, Europe, and the United States. She has a passion for animation and loves all things illustration, so she's always learning new things, as well as teaching them, through the courses and workshops that she organizes for her cultural association "Imagoblu," based in Bologna. She lives and works in Bologna, with her boyfriend and her chubby ginger cat, Rino. She loves fairytales, tea, music, swing dancing, and cats (of course).

Alessandra Fusi was born in Rome, where she attended the IED Institute of Art and Design, graduating in Illustration and Multimedia Animation. She has worked as an illustrator of children's books, puzzle games, and stationery products. As a painter, she has exhibited her work in various solo and collective art shows across Italy, Europe, and the United States. She has a passion for animation and loves all things illustration, so she's always learning new things, as well as teaching them, through the courses and workshops that she organizes for her cultural association "Imagoblu," based in Bologna. She lives and works in Bologna, with her boyfriend and her chubby ginger cat, Rino. She loves fairytales, tea, music, swing dancing, and cats (of course).