Liz is the author of the best selling TOM GATES series for 9+ readers, which has sold 6,000,000 books in the UK. Tom Gates has been translated into 44 languages and has sold over 16.5 million copies around the world.

The first book in the series THE BRILLIANT WORLD OF TOM GATES won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Red House Book Award Best Book for Young Readers and the Waterstone¹s Best Fiction for 5-12 year olds Prize.

The fourth book in the series TOM GATES: GENIUS IDEAS MOSTLY won the Blue Peter Award for Best Story.