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Katherine Woodfine
Katherine Woodfine (born 1983) is a British children's author, known for The Sinclair's Mysteries series beginning with ''The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow''. Biography Katherine Woodfine was born in Lancashire in 1983. She studied English at Bristol University and in 2005 she was highly commended in Vogue magazine’s annual Talent Competition for young writers. Woodfine lives in London. Woodfine's first job was working in Waterstones bookshop in Lancaster. She later managed a bookshop and gallery at Cornerhouse, Manchester’s international centre for visual arts and film, and worked for Arts Council England, Arts Council England’s North West office, specialising in literature. She spent six years working for Booktrust where she project-managed the Children's Laureateship and worked on other children's book prizes and initiatives, including YALC, the UK’s first Young Adult Literature Convention, curated by Malorie Blackman. She now combines writing with other childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sinclair's Mysteries
The Sinclair's Mysteries is a quartet of children's historical mysteries from author Katherine Woodfine. The first book, ''The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow'', was published in June 2015. It was a Waterstones Book of the Month. The sequel, ''The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth'', was published in February 2016; the third instalment, ''The Mystery of the Painted Dragon'', was published in February 2017, with the fourth and final instalment ''The Midnight Peacock'' published in October 2017. Each of the novels is set in Edwardian London and revolves around the fictional department store, Sinclair's. Sinclair's is an establishment very much like Selfridge's, catering to London's rich, offering high fashion, perfumes and sweets. The series heroines Lilian Rose and Sophie Taylor are employed on the shop floor and frequently find themselves privy to criminal goings-on. Novels ''The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow'' Left penniless when her father dies, Sophie is pleased to find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British children's writer. Her debut novel, '' Fly By Night'', won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the ''School Library Journal'' Best Books. Her 2015 novel '' The Lie Tree'' won the 2015 Costa Book Award, the first children's book to do so since Philip Pullman's ''The Amber Spyglass'' in 2001. She has also been shortlisted for and received a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her short stories. Biography Hardinge was born in Brighton, England, and dreamed of writing at the age of four. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford and was the founder member of a writers' workshop there. Her writing career started after she won a short story magazine competition. Shortly after winning she wrote ''Fly By Night'' in her spare time and showed it to Macmillan Publishers after pressure from a friend. Hardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Children's Writers
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1983 Births
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of The Painted Dragon
''The Mystery of the Painted Dragon'' is the third novel in The Sinclair's Mysteries book series by British children's author Katherine Woodfine published by Egmont Publishing. The novel is the third book in a four book mystery-adventure series set in Edwardian England. The first book in the series was '' The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow'' which was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month in June 2015. Plot Sophie Taylor and Lillian "Lil" Rose, the main female protagonists, are quite bored from lack of mysteries to solve and the business of everyday life in Sinclair's. An art exhibition of some of the finest and most renowned work in the country is to be displayed in Sinclair's and one of the focal pieces is the Green Dragon by Benedetto Casselli, the second artwork in the Casselli sequence, a painting which was especially presented to the exhibition by His Majesty the King Edward VII. On the first day of the exhibition, the cloth supposedly covering the Green Dragon is re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of The Jewelled Moth
''The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth'' is the second novel in The Sinclair's Mysteries series by British children's author Katherine Woodfine, publishing by Egmont Publishing in February 2016. The novel is the second book in a four book mystery-adventure series set in Edwardian England. The first book in the series was '' The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow'' which was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month in June 2015. Plot Sophie is an orphan who has been left penniless when her father dies, due to an error in the will. In '' The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow'', Sophie finds a job in the millinery department of Sinclair's Department store, Londons newest and greatest, and makes friends with Billy, a junior porter with an uncle already working in the store, and Lil, a "mannequin" by day and an aspiring actress by night. In ''The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth'', the Jewelled Moth, a priceless piece of jewellery, disappears, and again Sophie, Lil and Billy have to solve t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egmont Books Ltd
The Egmont Group (formerly The Gutenberghus Group) is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise mass media generally. History and profile The Egmont Group was founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, but soon became a magazine business. It was originally called "P. Petersen, Printers", named after Petersen's mother, as he was still too young at the time to register his own company. The company was renamed ''Gutenberghus'' in 1914 (after the famous inventor of the printing press), a name it kept until 1992. Since 1948 Gutenberghus, looking for new opportunities, sent its editor Dan Folke to Walt Disney Productions, and he managed to acquire a license for publishing comic magazines in Scandinavia. In 1948 the company started to publish a Donald Duck comic magazine in Sweden (as '' Kalle Anka & C:o'') and Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abi Elphinstone
Abi Elphinstone is a British children's author. Early life Elphinstone grew up near Edzell in Angus, Scotland. At St Leonards School, she was dyslexic, and deemed "unteachable". She is one of four children, two others of whom are also dyslexic. She studied English at the University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ..., before working as a teacher in Africa, Berkshire, and London. Career Her first book was published in 2015, and by March 2020 had sold 225,000 books. ''Saving Neverland'' published in 2023 is a sequel to J M Barrie's, Peter Pan. Set in the present day, it features ten year old Martha Penydrop and her seven-year-old brother, Scruff. Elphinstone has imagined her own Neverland but retained some of the creatures from Barrie's classic story. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Pankhurst
Kate Pankhurst is a British writer and illustrator, known for a series of children's picture books. She won second place in the 2002 Macmillan Prize for Picture Book Illustration. Early life Kate Pankhurst was raised in Liverpool, England. She later credited an independent bookshop that she passed on the way to school as introducing her to books. Pankhurst was inspired by an issue of British comic ''The Beano'' to create her own comic, and after selling copies to her school friends, decided that she wanted to work in illustration when she grew older. Initially she sought to become a shoe designer, but while undertaking Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Central Lancashire in illustration, she realised that she could work as a children's book illustrator. Career After winning second place in the 2002 Macmillan Prize for Picture Book Illustration, she began working on the Mariella Mystery Investigates series. This was the published work which Pankhurst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls (born 22 June 1983) is a prize-winning British children's book author. Life Nicholls was born and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, England. She attended Great Ayton Friends' School until its closure and subsequently Egglescliffe School until 2001.Sally NichollsAll About Me!, retrieved 2008-02-29. On finishing school, Nicholls chose to travel around the world. She reached Australia and New Zealand, following a period of working in Japan at a Red Cross hospital. She returned to the United Kingdom to begin a bachelor's degree at the University of Warwick, covering Philosophy and Literature. Completing her undergraduate degree, she signed up to continue with Bath Spa University, taking their "Writing for Young People" master's degree, offered by the School of English and Creative Studies there. As of 2012 Nicholls lives in Oxford.The Northern Echo'All Fall Down by Sally Nicholls' 2012-03-22. She is a regular at Quaker meetingsSchool Library Association24-year-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Golding
Julia Golding (born 1969), pen names Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards, is a British novelist best known for her ''Cat Royal'' series and '' The Companions Quartet''. Biography Born in London, 1969, she grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge.Julia Golding – Info She then joined the Foreign Office and worked in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her many places including the and the bottom of a |
