Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa,

she now lives and works in Cambridge. She has worked in

English Language Teaching for twenty years, in Africa and

England, and has been writing ELT fiction for ten years. Loue

or Money? was her first story for the Oxford Bookworms

Library, and she has now written several other stories for the

series, including Remember Miranda and Tbe Witches of

Pendle (both at Stage 1). She has also written books for

children. One of her favourite pastimes is reading detective

stones.