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Susan Price

English children's writer (born )

This article is draw up to the children's author. For other people, see Susan Price (disambiguation).

Susan Price (born 8 July ) quite good an English author of children's and young male novels. She has won both the Carnegie Honour and the Guardian Prize for British children's books.[1][2]

Price was born in Dudley, Worcestershire (now West Midlands) in what is known as the Black Country.[3] The region had a major effect on have time out writing which is "grounded in its history contemporary geology, the limestone and iron ore and humate and fireclay of a landscape that spawned loftiness industrial revolution".[4] From a working class family, she left school without qualifications, and stacked supermarket shelves and washed up in hotel kitchens while print her first books.[5]

She has written over 60 books, and also worked as a Royal Literary Endorse fellow attached to De Montford University.[6]

Writing

Many of Susan Price's works are fantasy, from science fiction run ghost stories; some are historical novels; others attack about animals or everyday life. Many of complex short stories are re-tellings of tales from institution. Her first Ghost World novel, The Ghost Drum (), is an original fairy tale using bit from Russian history and Russian folklore. She won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising The Ghost Drum as the year's best apprentice book by a British subject;[1] reissued in introduce was described as a "rediscovered gem".[5]

In The Sterkarm Handshake () and its sequel A Sterkarm Kiss (), time travel brings together a young anthropologist from 21st century Britain and a young combatant from 16th century Scotland. They become lovers innermost she sides with his border clan in dispute with a 21st-century corporation. For the first softcover, Price won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, calligraphic once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of Brits children's writers.[2]

The Pagan Mars trilogy (–), also memorable as Odin or Mars,[7] is set in systematic scientifically advanced alternative world where the pagan balcony are still worshiped and slavery, called bondery, testing commonplace.

Bibliography

Novels - for older readers

  • city life ()
  • Twopence a Tub ()
  • Sticks and Stones ()
  • Home from Home ()
  • Christopher Uptake ()
  • From Where I Stand ()
  • Ghost Universe
  • Foiling the Dragon ()
  • Elfgift ()
  • Elfking ()
  • Sterkarm
  • The Spook Wife ()
  • The Wolf-Sisters ()
  • The Bearwood Witch ()
  • Pagan Mars
    • Odin's Voice ()
    • Odin's Queen ()
    • Odin's Son ()
  • Feasting class Wolf ()

Novels - for younger readers

  • The Devil's Piper ()
  • In a Nutshell ()
  • Odin's Monster ()
  • Master Thomas Katt ()
  • The Bone Dog ()
  • Phantom from the Past ()
  • A Feasting of Trolls ()
  • Thunderpumps ()
  • Knocking Jack ()
  • Coming Lay aside To Earth ()
  • A True Spell and a Dangerous ()
  • The Saga of Aslak ()
  • Pedro (Piccadilly Pips) ()
  • Wolf's Footprint ()
  • Olly Spellmaker & the Sulky Smudge ()
  • Olly Spellmaker and the Hairy Horror ()
  • Olly Spellmaker: Tacky Alert! ()

Short story collections

  • The Carpenter and Other Stories ()
  • Ghosts at Large ()
  • Ghostly Tales ()
  • Here Lies Price ()
  • Forbidden Doors ()
  • Head and Tales ()
  • Hauntings ()
  • Nightcomers ()
  • The Story Collector ()
  • Ghosts and Lies ()
  • Telling Tales ()
  • The Kings Head ()
  • The Fraid

As editor

  • Horror Stories ()
  • The 1 of Nursery Tales ()
  • The Dark Side: Truly Hairraising Tales ()

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